Allcroft was most known for producing popular children’s shows featuring Thomas the Tank Engine after obtaining the rights to adapt Reverand Wilbert Awdry’s “Railway Series” books in the ...

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 producer brought the beloved children's series to TV screens after securing the rights to adapt Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s Railway Series books. The series aired as Thomas the Tank Engine ...

Thomas the Tank Engine was created by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry in a series of 1940s children’s books (he based the train on a wooden toy made for his son). Allcroft’s first adaptation ...

More than 80 years have passed since the author of Thomas the Tank Engine created the first characters ... was inspired to write The Railway Series books after hearing trains as he lay in his ...

By Victor Mather Thomas the Tank Engine notices a funny smell ... an expressive face who first appeared in British children’s books by the Rev. W. Awdry. The character and his fellow locomotives ...

after Britt obtained the rights to adapt Reverand Wilbert Awdry's Railway Series books in the 1980s, before being renamed Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. Britt had the helping hand of her then ...

Britt Allcroft, a British television producer and writer who helped to develop “Thomas & Friends” based on “The Railway Series” books and its characters including Thomas the Tank Engine ...