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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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.