A new More4 series Steam Train Diaries is set to transport viewers on a nostalgic journey through the tracks of the North ...

A heritage railway charity is celebrating the 80th anniversary of Thomas with a 14-mile "big birthday adventure" train trip. The famous talking steam engine character was created by the Rev W Awdry, ...

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 ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” series, has died at age 81, filmmaker Brannon Carty announced on X. Allcroft was most known for producing popular children’s shows ...

Two hundred rail ties. Eleven hundred feet of rail. Heavy-duty cable nearly a mile in length. After a recent wildfire put the Lookout Mountain Incline Railway out of commission, the months of repair ...

A national blue plaque has been unveiled at the former home of Thomas The Tank Engine creator Reverend Wilbert Awdry. The unveiling, at 30 Rodborough Avenue in Stroud, Gloucestershire, marked 80 years ...