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

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 ...

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Allcroft was most known for producing popular children’s shows featuring Thomas the Tank Engine after obtaining the rights to adapt Reverand Wilbert Awdry’s “Railway Series” books in the ...

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Reverend Wilbert Awdry was inspired to write The Railway Series books after ... There have been more than 20 series of Thomas the Tank Engine shown in at least 180 countries around the world ...

The series followed Thomas, a blue, anthropomorphised tank locomotive, and a fleet of his friends as they worked each day on the railway under ... of Thomas the Tank Engine. A statement from ...