A narrow-gauge railway nestled in the hills of southern Snowdonia became the unlikely epicentre of international nostalgia ...

First created in a series of children’s books by Rev. Wilbert Awdry and son Christopher. Thomas appeared in the second of the “Railway Series” books in 1946 and became the most popular ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the beloved children’s series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, has died aged 81. In the 1970s, the TV producer secured the rights to adapt the Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s ...

Britt Allcroft, a British television producer and writer who helped to develop “Thomas & Friends” based on “The Railway Series” books and its characters including Thomas the Tank Engine, died on Dec.

In June 1953, the first television adaptation of The Railway Books was created by the BBC. But viewers complained about the programme and it was soon scrapped.

In 1950, he writes in The Island of Sodor, after his first four Railway Series books had been written, that he was poring over maps to "find a suitable location for the Fat Controller's Railway ...

Allcroft, from Worthing, England, produced several shows for British television during the 1970s before securing the rights to the Rev. W. Awdry's Railway Series books featuring Thomas the Tank ...

Britt Allcroft was an English writer, producer, director and voice actress best known for creating the beloved children's television series Thomas The Tank Engine. In the 1970s she secured the rights ...

In the 1970s, Britt secured the rights to create a screen adaptation of Reverend Wilbert Awdry's Railway Series books and in 1984 Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends made its debut.