That naughty blue engine, Thomas is in trouble again – he's had to be taken to hospital after a fight with a bigger engine! Fortunately he is very solidly built, but is suffering from internal injuries which mean that his boiler will have to come off and all his tubes come out, a very slow and painful process.
The fat controller had to look all over the country to find a hospital with a spare siding, and the Flour Mill Engine Clinic at Bream just happened to have one in their new A&E unit.
Fortunately Bream has some very good engine doctors eager to operate on their famous patient, who has checked in under the alias of "Coventry No. 1".
So the naughtiest engine in Britain will be joining a lot of other steam engines who are being operated on at the Flour Mill, including:
"Black Prince", the 100-ton engine built by BR at Swindon in 1959 and owned by the wildlife artist, David Shepherd.
This will be one of the newest engines working in Britain when it is finished.
The "Beattie well-tank" 30587, built by Beyer Peacock in Manchester in 1874, and now owned by the National Railway Museum, York, will be one of the oldest engines working in Britain when it is finished.
Also at Bream are "Karel", a green engine all the way from Poland; 5521, a GWR engine built at Swindon in 1927; "Cunarder", a Hunslet shunting engine, and "Sentinel", a former steam engine now fitted with a Rolls-Royce diesel engine.
So that Foresters can come and see all of these engines, the Flour Mill is going to have an open-day on Saturday next, February 23, from 11am to 5pm. Admission charges (£2.00 for adults, £1.00 for children) will be collected for the benefit of the new A&E unit at Lydney Hospital.
Engine consultants, doctors and nurses will be on hand to show off their famous patients.
The Flour Mill is just outside Bream heading towards Parkend.