Rev Awdry was a lifelong train lover ... Britt signed a deal with US television station PBS and in 1989 created a half-hour children’s program called Shining Time Station.

Thomas the Tank Engine had humble beginnings as the star of stories that the Rev. Wilbert Awdry told his son Christopher in 1942, when Christopher was sick in bed with the measles. Christopher ...

The Rev Wilbert Awdry often pointed out the parallels between ... listening to various trains passing through Box station. As he told Sibley years later, the gradient on the approach to Box ...

WV Awdry's first book on the line, Small Railway Engines, includes a visit by the Thin Clergyman (himself) and the Fat Clergyman (his friend the Rev Teddy ... trains at a big station.

The first was published in 1945. Sodor was based on the Isle of Man, and Rev Awdry drew on his own childhood growing up next to a railway station in the village of Box, Wiltshire. But with ...

Reverend Wilbert Awdry was inspired to write The Railway Series books after hearing trains as he lay in his childhood bed in Wiltshire. Rev Awdry later created Thomas to entertain his young son ...

The Rev. Wilbert Vere Awdry, 85, who delighted generations of children with his tales of “Thomas the Tank Engine,” died Friday in London. The son of a train-loving clergyman, Awdry started ...

Mrs Fortnam, 65, said her father Rev W Awdry was the son of a vicar and brought her and her sister and brother up in the traditions of the Church of England. In a letter to The Daily Telegraph Ms ...

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 ...

WV Awdry's first book on the line, Small Railway Engines, includes a visit by the Thin Clergyman (himself) and the Fat Clergyman (his friend the Rev Teddy ... trains at a big station.