Maria's Foxy Christmas

Maria's Foxy Christmas is a BRT special which aired on 22 December 2020.

Plot
It was Christmas time and all the engines on the Southampton Railway were getting the last of their jobs done because tomorrow is going to be Christmas Day. They're working very hard.

All except for Maria as she was watching a family of foxes playing in the snow.

Heartbeat chuffed next to her and said hello, but Maria shushed to him as she watches the foxes.

Maria told Heartbeat that before she watched the foxes, she was resting in the siding, the red fox came towards her. He climbed onto her footplate and he rubbed the fur against her face. He was so soft and so fluffy that she had felt anything like it before. It was incredible. And that's how she knew the foxes.

Maria collected her train, and she was off to Sunshine Valley. She dropped off her trucks and went back to her shed.

It was getting late and Maria needs to stop at a water tower to get a drink. She had a nice long drink and her tanks were soon full.

While her driver and fireman went to the cottage, Maria saw something close by. Next to the trees, was a fox. She saw the fox and the fox got close to Maria.

Eye to eye, Maria looked at the fox, and the fox looked at her. Then out from the trees, a whole family of foxes. She noticed that it's the same foxes that she saw today. And indeed, they were. The mother fox jumped onto Maria's footplate, and she rubbed her fur against Maria's face. Just like that one fox Maria saw all those years ago. Then the mother fox jumped down. She chuckled and thanked them as the foxes went into the woods, where were they spend Christmas together.

Just then, Maria's driver and fireman returned and they returned to the sheds.

A few minutes later, Maria soon arrived at the sheds. Heartbeat told her that how long she had been. She said that she need to take some water, then, she worried that Rem, Shera and Lucy were. Bobby told her that the sheds had only five births and they're only be staying at the shunting yards during Christmas.

After the conversation, Maria will never forget that this Christmas that mother fox added her that one fox that she met all those years ago. And she hoped that she'll see mother fox again someday, as well as her family.

External link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShTE-5EP-UY