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

"Bringing the Rev. W. Awdry's Railway Series books to television for the first time, Britt introduced the beloved characters ...

First published in 1945, Wilbert and Christopher Awdry's The Railway Series books have been popular ... Art now celebrates 70 years of Thomas and Friends with a display featuring around 200 ...

Thomas started out as a character in a series of books dating ... Awdry's The Railway Series revolved around a cast of anthropomorphic trains, including Thomas and his friends Gordon, James ...

(Awdry's "Railway Series" books were published from 1945 to 1972.) "Thomas & Friends: Explore the Rails" also explores that past with displays of Awdry's original drawings and manuscripts ...

Britt’s contributions to children’s television and Thomas & Friends cannot be understated,” Mattel said in a statement to Newswire. “Bringing the Rev. W. Awdry’s Railway Series books to ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” series ... to adapt Reverand Wilbert Awdry’s “Railway Series” books in the 1980s. The show first launched as ...

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 ...