Britt Allcroft, the creator of the “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” series, has died at age 81, filmmaker Brannon Carty announced on X. Allcroft was most known for producing popular children ...

The series aired as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends from 1984 until 2021. Allcroft’s family remembered her as an “adoring mother and wife and visionary producer” in an emotional statement.

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 ...

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Britt Allcroft, the British writer, director and producer who steered the animated locomotive Thomas the Tank Engine to television 40 years ago en route to launching a ...

THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE PARTY TOUR, OF COURSE, IS A TRAIN RIDE PULLED BY A FULL SIZE THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE, AND KIDS WILL ALSO GET TO LEARN ALL ABOUT THE VARIOUS STATES OF MATTER DURING A SCIENCE ...

Thomas the Tank Engine notices a funny smell. He breaks a rule, has a mishap and gets stuck. He is rescued and learns a lesson. Ringo Starr provides the narration. If you have ever seen any of the ...

Britt Allcroft, a British television producer and writer who helped to develop “Thomas & Friends” based on “The Railway Series” books and its characters including Thomas the Tank Engine ...

Growing up in the south of England in the early 1950s, Britt Allcroft liked to stop at a railway bridge on her walk to school and wait for a steam train to come charging by. “That wonderful ...