This is the 70th anniversary of the first book in the Thomas the Tank Engine Railway Series begun by my father, Wilbert — the Revd W. Awdry. There has been a party in London, a film première of a ...

A heritage railway charity is celebrating the 80th anniversary of Thomas with a 14-mile "big birthday adventure" train trip.

Reverend Wilbert Awdry was inspired to write The Railway Series books after hearing trains ... Margaret Awdry, Christopher Awdry, Hilary Awdry) at their home in Norfolk in 1965 "You talk to ...

First published in 1945, Wilbert and Christopher Awdry's The Railway Series books have been popular in Japan ever since first appearing on these shores in 1973, with a life-sized Thomas train even ...

Opponents of the talking locomotive – who have branded the 70-year-old series authoritarian ... thought. Christopher Awdry, who went on to write numerous Thomas books himself after his father ...

‘I played with it for a while,’ Christopher Awdry ... In the UK alone, where Awdry wrote 26 Railway Series books before retiring in 1972, there are now about 1,600 Thomas & Friends products ...

In the first book in The Railway Series, artist William Middleton ... 30. Neither Rev Awdry nor Christopher ever thought Thomas was the star of the books. 31. Thomas’s television debut was ...

Thomas the Tank Engine harks back to the age of steam Thomas the Tank Engine creator WV Awdry, born 100 years ago, set his railway engine stories in a sort of British Atlantis called Sodor.

Thomas started out as a character in a series of books dating back to the 1940s by Rev. Wilbert Awdry, an English Anglican minister and train enthusiast. Awdry's The Railway Series revolved around ...

Thomas the Tank Engine creator WV Awdry, born 100 years ago, set his railway engine stories in a sort of British Atlantis called Sodor. But where is it? In Sodor they are celebrating, according to ...