RODBOROUGH is celebrating 80 years of Thomas the Tank Engine with a series of events. The community is honouring the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, the author of the popular children's series, who lived in ...

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’s shows ...

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 a ...