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

First published in 1945, Wilbert and Christopher Awdry's The Railway Series books have been popular in Japan ever since first appearing on these shores in 1973, with a life-sized Thomas train even ...

Now Christopher, the son of Thomas creator Rev W Awdry for whom ... original spirit of the series. Yesterday marked 70 years since the publication of the first ‘Railway Series’ book, The ...

This is the 70th anniversary of the first book in the Thomas the Tank Engine Railway Series begun by my father, Wilbert — the Revd W. Awdry. There has been a party in London, a film première of a ...

The family website asks all Thomas fans to sign their petition requesting the original Railway Series to be republished. No one from Egmont Books was available for comment. Christopher Awdry now ...

In Sodor they are celebrating, according to the latest book in the Railway Series of stories started by the Reverend Wilbert (WV) Awdry in 1945. In the book written by WV Awdry's son Christopher ...

Reverend Wilbert Awdry was inspired to write The Railway Series books after hearing trains ... Margaret Awdry, Christopher Awdry, Hilary Awdry) at their home in Norfolk in 1965 "You talk to ...

Thomas was created by Rev Wilbert Awdry when his son Christopher was suffering from ... In the first book in The Railway Series, artist William Middleton was not faithful to Awdry’s vision ...

I've asked for The Three Railway Engines, the first of many books written by the Reverend W.V. Awdry ... Railway Series, the last in 1972. He had run out of ideas. In 1983, his son Christopher ...

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 ...

Now Christopher, the son of Thomas creator Rev W Awdry for whom ... original spirit of the series. Yesterday marked 70 years since the publication of the first ‘Railway Series’ book, The ...

Reverend Wilbert Awdry was inspired to write The Railway Series books after hearing trains ... Awdry family (l-r, Veronica, Rev Awdry, Margaret Awdry, Christopher Awdry, Hilary Awdry) at their ...