the day before Reverend Wilbert V Awdry’s birthday on June 15. The first-class stamp shows Thomas pulling into one of the Fat Controller’s stations. James the Red Engine, Percy the Small ...

The TV producer was behind bringing the beloved children's series to life in the 1970s after securing the rights to adapt Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s ... Toby and Percy while working with The ...

Handmade by his father, the Rev Wilbert Awdry ... followers of the Rev Awdry’s famous Railway Series who wished to assemble their own cardboard versions of Thomas, Percy, Gordon and James.

Mr Awdry’s daughter, Hilary Fortnam, told the Daily Telegraph she was “dismayed” by the story. In a letter to the paper, she said: “It is not what my father, the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, wrote.

As a child, the Rev. Wilbert Awdry would imagine that the nearby steam engines he could hear were talking to each other. When he became a father himself, he used that memory to create stories to ...

Reverend Wilbert Awdry with the model railway set he used to help plan his stories More than 80 years have passed since the author of Thomas the Tank Engine created the first characters which ...