![]() He does have Henry shipped away, but it is to Crewe, a fine place for sick engines that rebuilds Henry into a proper locomotive shape and sees him return to Sodor, triumphant. When the Fat Controller comes, all Henry can do is pitifully groan that the signal was down, clearly believing he's about to be sent away.only for the Fat Controller to assure Henry that he knows and that the bad winter weather was to blame. Just as Henry is doing better for himself, he ends up having the most brutal accident in the present-day of the books. It seems like a brutal "Shaggy Dog" Story when you think about it. The ending of the "Flying Kipper", or rather, the crash at the end.Thankfully, the Fat Controller agrees that Henry deserves a fair chance and has James go to fetch a supply. The only solution is Welsh Coal, the only coal that burns well enough to work such a firebox. ![]() The revelation of why Henry is a poor steamer he has a small firebox, which supplemental materials reveal is because he was built from stolen, faulty Gresley designs.No matter what the works on Sodor have done, nothing seems to work, and the Fat Controller is at the end of his rope, seeming ready to send Henry away, much to the sadness of his crew and Henry himself. The first story, "Coal", immediately sets the tone where we learn that Henry's illness is getting more and more serious.
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