Middle Engine AB Remake

Sir Topham Hatt's engines love their work but none of them enjoys being a middle engine. One day, Percy is collecting coal trucks from the Smelters Yard to take to the coaling plant, but 'Arry and Bert, the scrap twin diesels, play a trick on him by shunting freight cars in front of him, making him a middle engine. Percy now has to go slowly between the rakes of cars and, while going through Callan Station, James teases him by calling him '"Pokey Percy". Once at the coaling plant, Percy has to shunt the front cars onto the tipper's loading ramp for the coal to be dumped. Percy knows it is against the rules for an engine to go on the tipper's loading ramp while it is operating, but when his driver and fireman leave to talk to the plant manager, Henry arrives to collect some coal cars, unaware that Percy is there and accidentally bumps him onto the loading ramp, where he is lifted up and brought back down with his coal bunker dumped out. The plant manager is cross with Percy for causing confusion and delay and reports the incident to Sir Topham Hatt. That night at the sheds, James returns to see Sir Topham Hatt scolding Percy and restricting him to shunt cars in the yards as punishment. He then brags that he can handle 'Arry and Bert, thinking no one could hear him. To his dismay, Sir Topham Hatt hears him and sends him to the smelters yard to do Percy's work the next day. At first, James does not let 'Arry and Bert's bullying get in his way and thinks he has put them in their place. However, once it is time to collect his train, 'Arry plays the same trick on James that they did on Percy. Not wanting to be like Percy or a "middle engine," James refuses to move, so Percy is sent to pull James with his train, all the way to the docks. The dock manager is pleased with Percy's on time arrival and asks what James is doing in the middle. Percy then jokes that James is learning to be a "middle engine," leaving James feeling angry and embarrassed.