For Drew Benjamin the whole thing started with Thomas the Tank Engine. The loquacious locomotive, introduced by British ...

As a young autistic kid growing up, Thomas the Tank Engine stories by the Rev W Awdry, and later, his son Christopher, were ...

New Year, same train strikes. It’s been well over two years (coming up to three) since London’s rail workers first started striking over issues like pay, working conditions and job security.

Britt Allcroft, best known for her television adaptation of Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s Railway Series characters, which ...

‘Happy Jail’ is a docu-series that focuses on the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in Cebu, Philippines. Its premise centers on a former convict taking charge of the rehab facility ...

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 ...

Britt Allcroft, the producer who adapted Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends for television, has died. She was 81. According to Allcroft’s daughter Holly Wright, she died on Wednesday, Dec. 25 in ...

The beloved blue locomotive was first imagined in the 1940s — he starred in stories Rev. Wilbert Awdry told his son. Allcroft adapted Awdry's The Railway Series into Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends.