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 ...

Adult nostalgia for children’s television is nothing new. Generation X collected Peanuts and Flintstones lunch boxes and Scooby-Doo and Josie and the Pussycats board games. Thomas the Tank Engine is ...

Thomas appeared in the second of the “Railway Series” books in 1946 and became the most popular character. Thomas the Tank Engine.

There have been more than 20 series of Thomas the Tank Engine shown in at least 180 countries around the world as well as films, merchandise and a theme park in Staffordshire.

Awdry says in The Island of Sodor that his best-known creation, Thomas, is a class E2 0-6-0 tank engine from the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway; the Fat Controller acquired him as a ...

Thomas the Tank Engine is returning to East Lancashire Railway - here's when you can book for 2022 The popular Day Out With Thomas event is running over three weekends this year ...

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the publication of the first ‘Railway Series’ book by the Anglican vicar Rev Wilbert Awdry. But while children, especially boys, love Thomas and all the ...

THOMAS the Tank Engine series creator Britt Allcroft has died aged 81. The TV producer secured the rights to adapt Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s Railway Series in the 1970s. Filmmaker and fri… ...