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

Captivated by the charm of Awdry’s characters, she envisioned bringing the books to television. In 1984, her dream became a reality with the launch of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends ...

LOS ANGELES — Britt Allcroft, the woman who created Thomas the Tank Engine, has died. She was 81. Filmmaker Brannon Carty ...

Britt Allcroft, creator of the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends children's TV series ... Thomas started out as a character in a series of books dating back to the 1940s by Rev. Wilbert ...

The first episodes of “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” aired on British television ... she wrote she was working on a book she hoped would be “published this year.” ...

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 ...

Britt Allcroft, the producer who adapted Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends for television, has died. She was 81. According to ...

Allcroft's initial adaption, which she funded by taking out a mortgage on her home, was a 26-episode television series that debuted as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends on ITV in the United Kingdom ...

The beloved blue locomotive was first imagined in the 1940s — he starred in stories Rev. Wilbert Awdry told his son. Allcroft ...