A blue plaque will be unveiled at the former home of Thomas the Tank Engine creator Reverend Wilbert Awdry later. The ceremony marks 80 years since the first of the classic Thomas & Friends books was ...

As a child, the Rev. Wilbert Awdry would imagine that the nearby steam engines he could hear were talking to each other. When he became a father himself, he used that memory to create stories to tell ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today, Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT), kicks off worldwide celebrations for the 75th anniversary of the iconic global preschool brand, Thomas & Friends™. The ...

Thomas & Friends is a British children's television series, which had its first broadcast on the ITV network on 4 September 1984. It is based on The Railway Series of books by the Reverend Wilbert ...