The two similar-looking locomotives fought until the Small Controller broke them up. "This is no Main Line," said Jock, "if you'd stop pretending to be all high and mighty you'd help us you old bigot!" "I'm sorry," Bert protested, "my brake wasn't secured!" "Watch what you're doing, you blue cow!" snapped Jock. "OW!!!" exclaimed Jock, Bert bumping into him.
Jock was puffing onto the turntable "lead" when Bert appeared, puffing steadily along the siding and towards the New Engine! The second the turntable stopped spinning, Bert's brake unlocked completely and he puffed away! "HELP!!!" he whistled. As Oliver departed with Alice, Mirabel, Isabel, and Dulcie behind his bunker, it happened.
However, Bert's Driver hadn't tightened the brake enough. Jock traversed the pointwork, knowing he'd give Bert plenty of time. After the station pilot, Blister II, hauled the coaches away, Jock backed off to get turned around. "He broke down shortly after Kingfisher was joined by Jinty and Fowler earlier today on the pilot duty," he said, "so I'm covering in his absence."
"Where'd Duck go?" asked Jock, stopping in the station to let his passengers off, "I thought he was taking this train." Oliver stood in the platform with Duck's two auto coaches as well as his own. Jock had an uneventful run and soon arrived back at Arlesburgh. Just then, Jock's Guard whistled and the little engine steamed off. The lorry was too wide to fit into the road yard. "Is it true you really had to haul a lorry trailer into the Yard at Arlesdale?" asked the "Pacer." He'd heard about it from Duck when he and the others covered in the absense of the Fat Controller's Engines when James went missing for a week in September 2017. "That's right, old boy," said Evan, "you're Jock, right?" He'd heard of him from Owen on a visit in 2002. It was a familiar one, but one that wasn't heard west of Crovan's Gate.
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