Continuity mistake: When Thomas teases James about bootlaces, the background disappears in a close up of Thomas.
Continuity mistake: When Edward is pushing trucks over a turntable, when he stops, he is very close to the trucks, when the camera changes, he moves back a bit. (Note the tank the Fat Controller is standing on).
Continuity mistake: Before Percy Runs Away, his crew is out of the cab. But after Percy Runs Away from Gordon, his crew is back in the cab.
Continuity mistake: US Only: Henry reverses on to the siding, then he leaves it again. His tender also hits the station building.
Continuity mistake: When Henry leaves the docks, there's nothing on his footplate, but when he's out of the docks, there are suddenly 2 lamps on his footplate.
Continuity mistake: When Henry sneezes at the boys, you can see that the boys got ashes on them before the smoke has even touched them yet.
Continuity mistake: When Henry sneezes at the boys, in the shot of the boys with the smoke rising up, you can see that they already got ashes on them before the smoke had even touched them.
Continuity mistake: In a close up of the tar wagons before James crashes into them, James disappears.
Continuity mistake: James leaves Elsbridge Station with the brake coach at the rear. When James arrives at Knapford Station, the brake coach is in the middle.
Continuity mistake: The sign says: "Danger - engines must not pass this board." When Thomas passes it, "board" is replaced with "point."
Continuity mistake: Gordon's connecting rods change position after he pulls Thomas out of the mine.
Thomas, Percy and the Coal - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: When Thomas is being covered in coal, he is dirty in some shots, but in other shots he is clean.
Continuity mistake: At the beginning, Edward is pulling 5 cattle trucks. When he approaches the cows, he is pulling 4 cattle trucks.
Continuity mistake: Gordon's express train has 1 composite coach and 2 brake coaches when he passes through Wellsworth station. When he crosses the viaduct, he has 2 composite coaches and 1 brake coach.
Continuity mistake: Gordon can be seen next to Edward when Edward says "two big engines afraid of a cow?", but Gordon should have been on the turntable.
Continuity mistake: When Edward stops at the station, a close up of his whistle shows the sky is sunset dark, but when he arrives, it's bright daylight.
Continuity mistake: When Bill and Ben notice their trucks are gone, there are guards in front of them, two shots later, there is no sign of the guards.
Continuity mistake: After Stepney's driver tells Stepney to speed up, Caroline is nowhere to be seen.
Bowled Out - S4-E18
Continuity mistake: When the diesel grinds to a halt and the camera switches to Duck and Stepney and then back to him, he is noticeably further away from the coaches.
Horrid Lorry - S5-E2
Continuity mistake: When Lorry 1 returns after falling into the sea, he is covered in algae and seaweed even though he wasn't submerged. He gains some more of it when Thomas sees him.
Answer: Butch the breakdown truck must have pulled Gordon's tender all the way up the rails so the breakdown train can reach it and also Butch helped to get Gordon close to the winch.