Young Tom is a bit of a geezer of a cat and he regularly hitches rides on trains around the network. Those who work on the railway know of him, and keep him well-fed with tinned pilchards and leftovers from the famous ‘footplate fry-up’, which is a culinary feast of bacon, eggs and sausage crafted on the fireman’s shovel. His owner, 87-year-old Beryl, a former racing driver and leading member of the local Womens’ Institute, misses Tom terribly when he’s on his travels. Having heard that Tom is back in the vicinity, she’s popped over to the engine shed to collect him. Tom, however, has other ideas, preferring the freedom of life on the iron roads…