Historic England is to unveil a national blue plaque at the former home of Thomas the Tank Engine creator Reverend Wilbert Awdry. The unveiling, at 30 Rodborough Avenue in Stroud, Gloucestershire, ...

As the father of a toddler, I spend a lot of time watching Thomas the Tank Engine, a fact that led me to write an article earlier this year in which I tried to figure out how the economics of the ...

Britt Allcroft, creator of the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends children's TV series, has died. The British-born producer died last week in Santa Monica, Calif., at 81. Thomas started out as a ...

In the children's books, Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends live on an island called Sodor, in England, thousands of miles from here in the Bay Area. This weekend, however, the friendly blue ...

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 a ...