By Victor Mather Thomas the Tank Engine notices a funny smell ... More recently, the show made efforts to diversify, adding new engines like Yong Bao of China and Ashima of India.

Bruno the Brake Car — a new character voiced by a child actor with autism— is about to roam the rails on the Island of Sodor, joining Thomas the Tank Engine ... show's train engines often ...

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 ...

Some of the featured guests will be Andrew Brenner, one of the many head writers, Ian McCue, series producer, and members of the Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s family, creator of Thomas the Tank ...

She adapted the children’s book ... to the big screen with the 2000 film “Thomas and the Magic Railroad.” A separate, animated version of the series, “Thomas and Friends: All Engines ...

She eventually secured the rights to the “Railway Series” books from which the character Thomas the Tank Engine was adapted on screen. Allcroft’s interest in the characters from this book ...