 While on holiday with his wife and two grandchildren, he met Toby the Tram Engine, who together with his coach Henrietta, has been having problems of his own with his railway in East Anglia closing down.Gordon has an accident by means of being lazy and careless, and so is taken off passenger train duties.He helps the other engines out when they get into trouble, and is eventually judged to be sensible enough to pull the Royal Train.