Thomas the Tank Engine is coming and you can ride behind the famous blue train

Thomas the Tank Engine is coming to Tamworth. The famous blue train is 80 years old and hosting special events around the ...
NPR

Britt Allcroft, who brought Thomas the Tank Engine to television, dies at 81

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 ...
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Thomas the Tank Engine tour heading to Devon this summer

The Thomas the Tank Engine tour is heading to South Devon Railway this summer. This year sees Thomas and Friends celebrate their 80th anniversary, and Day Out With Thomas: The Party Tour is marking ...
The New Yorker

The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends”

When I was a child, I could spend all day at Shining Time Station, the fictive train depot with its own eponymous TV show, where Thomas the Tank Engine and all his plate-faced locomotive friends ...