[The Railway Shorts] Bees Knees

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:05]Long after the storm had cleared up, James was helping repair the branch line.

[00:00:13]He was passing by the orchard when he saw Trevor next to little white boxes.

[00:00:19]Hello Trevor. You look as bright and cheerful as my red paint.

[00:00:25]Oh well, indeed I am.

[00:00:28]What's that noise?

[00:00:30]Oh, that's the biggest bees. They make lots of good sweet honey. He's planning to give his friends some as well.

[00:00:39]Well, after he gets some of his bees back from Tidmouth, that is.

[00:00:45]Just then, BoCo hummed along by.

[00:00:50]Be careful, you two.

[00:00:52]You don't want the bees stinging you now.

[00:00:57]James couldn't see the funny side of it.

[00:01:00]Oh, what is that diesel on about?

[00:01:02]Bees are no worry to an engine.

[00:01:14]Hm.

[00:01:15]Much more quieter around here without the twins.

[00:01:20]Oh, tell me about it.

[00:01:23]I actually called them the bees.

[00:01:26]Oh yeah, fitting.

[00:01:29]Fussy, buzzy sort of things they are.

[00:01:32]Just then, James interrupted.

[00:01:35]Talking about the bees again, BoCo?

[00:01:38]Oh, I wouldn't care if there were a million trillion bees all around me.

[00:01:42]I would just hiss steam and they'd buzz off.

[00:01:45]Listen to me, Bruce. Don't listen to that silly old green box about bees.

[00:01:53]What was that all about?

[00:01:55]I uh I don't know.

[00:02:02]Later one evening at Tidmouth, a guard was trying to wheel out one of the beehives.

[00:02:09]James was puffing by, but he forgot to sound off his whistle.

[00:02:19]When he saw the trolley, he tried his best to stop.

[00:02:22]But then he let off steam and blasted it right in the guard's face.

[00:02:27]It was greatly annoying, especially to the bees.

[00:02:34]Hearing the angry bees, the people on the platform cleared out, even James' fireman and driver.

[00:02:42]Leaving James all alone with a box of angry bees.

[00:02:48]The little bee fought James, burned him on purpose.

[00:02:52]He was very angry.

[00:02:55]I WILL NOT LET YOU DESTROY MY WORLD.

[00:02:59]>> [screaming] >> CRYING ALONE ALONE [music] ALONE ALONE.

[00:03:03]Crying alone alone alone. Don't come any closer.

[00:03:09]No. What are you?

[00:03:14]Bitter the cold the cold the [music] cold the cold. Bitter the cold the cold the cold the cold. Bitter the cold the cold the cold THE COLD IS ALL THAT I know. So I'm going to be completely honest with you, Trevor. I I have no idea what happened back there.

[00:03:32]It probably just thought you were going to hurt it, James.

[00:03:36]Thankfully, it couldn't sting you.

[00:03:39]Or else it well, would have died.

[00:03:43]Why would anyone make a bug that can sting you, but dies in the process?

[00:03:48]Seems like a bizarre flaw.

[00:03:51]The world works in mysterious ways, James.

[00:03:57]Well, I suppose I was right in the first place.

[00:04:01]No buzzy old thing can ever hurt me.

[00:04:06]Although James learned literally nothing from any of this.

[00:04:11]It was a fun joke and everyone had a laugh and that was all that mattered in the end.

[00:04:18]Even BoCo couldn't hold a straight face while telling the story.

[00:04:23]He found the idea of James hitting the bee's knees too funny of a story not to tell.