Britt Allcroft, a British television producer and writer who helped to develop "Thomas & Friends" based on "The Railway ...

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, ...

Thomas the Tank Engine creator Britt Allcroft has died aged 81. The producer brought the beloved children's series to TV screens after securing the rights to adapt Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s Railway ...

Australian Thomas the Tank Engine fan Cody Watson is embarking on a big adventure to mark the series' anniversary.

Thomas the Tank Engine began as a series of books written by Reverend Wilbert Awdry [Getty Images] A blue plaque will be unveiled at the former home of Thomas the Tank Engine creator Reverend Wilbert ...

A man has returned a Thomas the Tank Engine book to a library almost fifty years late, with an apologetic note - and dodged a potential £8,000 fee. The missing Thomas the Tank Engine and Learning in ...

Former President Jimmy Carter and a beloved story book character took a train ride today to get kids to read. Thomas the tank engine chugged into the presidents hometown of Plains. All aboard were ...

Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends were born in 1942, when Rev. Awdry made a small toy engine out of wood and wire for his son Christopher as a Christmas present. “He painted it blue, probably ...