The assistant in Waterstone's shakes his head. I've asked for The Three Railway Engines, the first of many books written by the Reverend W.V. Awdry. 'I don't recognise the title,' he says.

Those stories became The Three Railway Engines, which Awdry published in 1945. The Thomas books would become hugely popular in England -- and in 1984, Thomas landed his own TV series ...

The very first book in the Railway Series by the Rev. W. Awdry was called The Three Railway Engines. Published just at the end of the second world war, it introduces kindly Edward, proud strong ...

He produced the sketches to guide the illustrators of his first book of stories, The Three Railway Engines. Wilbert, a railway obsessive and a stickler for accuracy, tried out two illustrators ...

and publish them in a book entitled The Three Railway Engines. When it eventually appeared, four days after VE Day, on May 12 1945, it was a great success. Ward had suspected the stories would do ...

To mark Thomas the Tank Engine’s 75th anniversary, Prince Harry is introducing a new story about the impish train. To celebrate, here are 75 facts about the lovable locomotive. 1. Thomas was ...

the first book appeared on May 12, 1945 under the name of The Three Railway Engines. But after his son took a shine to the character of Thomas, and requested more stories about the blue tank ...