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|main character=[[Sam (Going Off the Rails)|Sam]], [[Harry (Going Off the Rails)|Harry]]
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writer=[[Justin Richards]]|
|enemy=[[Cyberman (Going Off the Rails)|Cybusman]]
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'''''Going Off the Rails''''' was a short story featured in ''[[Doctor Who Files 8: The Cybermen]]''. It was written by [[Justin Richards]].


==Summary==
== Summary ==
Young [[Sam (Going Off the Rails)|Sam]] (a girl) and [[Harry (Going Off the Rails)|Harry]] are building a trainset that their father was building and had stopped. They decide to continue with it. When Sam is looking through a box from Harry's father's old work,she finds the old head of a [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|Cyberman]]. She keeps looking through the box and she finds a arm and its body with an arm and two legs still attached .They decide to put the Cyberman back together. It later wakes up and orders Sam to help the Cyberman build a [[cyber-conversion unit]]. After it is finished, Harry attemps to kill the Cyberman with a big heavy train model, succeeding as it knocks the Cyberman into the Cyber-Conversion Unit. This act causes both to explode, killing the Cyberman and temporarily drawing back the plans for the next Cyber-Invasion.
Young [[Sam (Going Off the Rails)|Sam]] (a girl) and [[Harry (Going Off the Rails)|Harry]] are mates at school. Both their dads bought train sets about the same time, but while Sam's dad completed an impressive layout, Harry's dad hasn't really started his. Sam and Harry decide to build one themselves in the garage.


==Characters==
The train set is in bits in the garage. While they are rummaging around in the boxes of spare parts — some salvaged from a factory explosion where Harry's dad worked — they uncover enough parts to build a complete robot man; which they sit in a chair to watch them work. Once the head is put into place however, the robot man comes to life. It identifies itself as a [[Cyberman]] with the intention of upgrading Harry and Sam — to make them into machines like itself, with their brains electrified and resistance and emotion burnt out.
*[[Cyberman (Pete's World)|Cyberman]]
*[[Sam (Going Off the Rails)|Sam]]
*[[Harry (Going Off the Rails)|Harry]]


==References==
Harry and Sam are trapped by the Cyberman in the garage. Sam, who knows a bit about electronics, is made to follow instructions that will build a [[Cyber-conversion unit]]. As a very frightened Sam reluctantly completes the Cyberman's machine, she tries to push the Cyberman into the exposed wires. However, she is not strong enough.
''to be added''


==Notes==
Harry has been working on a plan. He sends one of the heaviest trains round the incomplete track at a great speed. The train flies off the end, catches the Cyberman off-guard and makes it stagger back onto the wires. The equipment is broken and explodes, destroying the Cyberman — just as Harry's mum calls him and Sam in for tea.
* The original short prose fiction featured in the [[Doctor Who Files]] series of hardbacks from [[BBC Children's Books]] was officially sanctioned by the Doctor Who production office.


==Continuity==
== Characters ==
*The events of [[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'' are mentioned.
* [[Cyberman (Going Off the Rails)|Cyberman]]
* [[Sam (Going Off the Rails)|Sam]]
* [[Harry (Going Off the Rails)|Harry]]
* [[Harry's mum]]


==External links==
== Worldbuilding ==
''to be added''
* Sam and Harry play with a [[model train set]].


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== Notes ==
[[Category:Doctor Who Files short stories]]
* The original short prose fiction featured in the ''[[Doctor Who Files]]'' series of hardbacks from [[BBC Children's Books]] was officially sanctioned by the ''Doctor Who'' production office.
* Though the organisation is not refered to by name, the implication is that [[Harry's dad]] worked for [[Cybus Industries]].
 
== Continuity ==
* [[Harry's dad]] worked at a factory which had some "trouble" and brought back parts for a [[Cyberman]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]''/''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'')
 
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Latest revision as of 20:57, 1 March 2024

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Going Off the Rails was a short story featured in Doctor Who Files 8: The Cybermen. It was written by Justin Richards.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Young Sam (a girl) and Harry are mates at school. Both their dads bought train sets about the same time, but while Sam's dad completed an impressive layout, Harry's dad hasn't really started his. Sam and Harry decide to build one themselves in the garage.

The train set is in bits in the garage. While they are rummaging around in the boxes of spare parts — some salvaged from a factory explosion where Harry's dad worked — they uncover enough parts to build a complete robot man; which they sit in a chair to watch them work. Once the head is put into place however, the robot man comes to life. It identifies itself as a Cyberman with the intention of upgrading Harry and Sam — to make them into machines like itself, with their brains electrified and resistance and emotion burnt out.

Harry and Sam are trapped by the Cyberman in the garage. Sam, who knows a bit about electronics, is made to follow instructions that will build a Cyber-conversion unit. As a very frightened Sam reluctantly completes the Cyberman's machine, she tries to push the Cyberman into the exposed wires. However, she is not strong enough.

Harry has been working on a plan. He sends one of the heaviest trains round the incomplete track at a great speed. The train flies off the end, catches the Cyberman off-guard and makes it stagger back onto the wires. The equipment is broken and explodes, destroying the Cyberman — just as Harry's mum calls him and Sam in for tea.

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