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 ...

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 ...

Britt Allcroft, a British television producer and writer who helped to develop "Thomas & Friends" based on "The Railway ...

By Victor Mather Thomas the Tank Engine notices a funny smell ... an expressive face who first appeared in British children’s books by the Rev. W. Awdry. The character and his fellow locomotives ...

Thomas the Tank Engine is rolling into Kohl Children’s Museum and he ... The exhibit also has Thomas memorabilia, including original books and toys, that parents and OG Thomas fans (like me!) can ...

For generations Thomas the Tank Engine ... toys so the books with their lovely pictures were all we had, but they were magical. My personal favourite was Trevor the traction engine who lived ...

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 ...

Thomas the Tank Engine was created by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry in a series of 1940s children’s books (he based the train on a wooden toy made for his son). Allcroft’s first adaptation ...

Thomas the Tank Engine was created by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry in a series of 1940s children's books (he based the train on a ...

Ms. Allcroft was the driving force behind bringing Thomas the Tank Engine, an animated locomotive first conceived in a series of children’s books in the 1940s by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry ...