Britt Allcroft: she became one of Britain’s wealthiest women - PA Britt Allcroft, who has died aged 81, was the entrepreneur who transformed Thomas the Tank Engine into an international phenomenon, ...

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, died on Dec.

A blue plaque has been unveiled at the former home of Thomas the Tank Engine's creator to celebrate the books' 75th anniversary. The Rev W Awdry wrote the first book in The Railway Series in 1945, and ...

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 ...

The American reboot of Thomas the Tank Engine has 'lost the magic' of the original series, according to its creator. Based on a series of books Wilbert Awdry and his son, Christopher, which were ...

Historic England is set to reveal a national blue plaque at the former Gloucestershire home of Reverend Wilbert Awdry, the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine. The unveiling will take place at 30, ...

She discovered the character in a series of 1940s children’s books and thought Ringo Starr would make a great Mr. Conductor on television. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Britt Allcroft, the British ...