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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Readers of the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine children's tales have been offered the rare opportunity to take a glimpse into the place where it all began, after the idyllic former Norfolk home of ...

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 ...

The engine usually runs short trips between Wansford and Yarwell stations, which takes about five minutes each way, with a pause for 15 minutes to allow the engine to turn around. The Rev Awdry ...