Created in 1983, the five-minute episode introduced the signature elements of "Thomas & Friends," including Ringo Starr's soothing narration and hand-crafted model trains. But for decades, it collecte ...

By Victor Mather Thomas the Tank Engine notices a funny smell ... The picture and sound were cleaned up, and newly composed music was added. “I think there’s a sort of a lovely charm and ...

Thomas the Tank Engine ... music was added. “I think there’s a sort of a lovely charm and innocence about it, and I think even as a pilot, as a test piece, it still has that lovely, classic ...

For generations Thomas the Tank Engine has chugged into the hearts of ... fully digitised and set to a bespoke music score by the original composer Mike O’Donnell. It also includes unheard ...

Elliott Garcia will be heard as Bruno the Brake Car alongside Thomas the Tank Engine. This year is the 75th anniversary of the first book in the Rev W Awdry's Railway Series. The Liverpool-born ...

The Piano Boat – known as ‘Rachmaninov’ – is a floating concert venue and was originally launched in 2021 by couple Rhiana and Masayuki Tayama. They declared that it was a ‘new way of bringing ...

An original, unseen version of the pilot episode of Thomas & Friends is set to be released to mark the 80th anniversary of the property. The character of Thomas the Tank Engine originated from ...

To celebrate we will be unveiling for the very first time the original pilot episode of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends from 1983. This episode, a piece of television history, was originally produced ...

classic, timeless story to it, and the voices, everything is just so delightful." Making his first appearance in the book world in 1945, Thomas was later adapted for television in a series that ra ...

Thomas the Tank Engine and his railway friends have innocently entertained generations of children. But now a psychologist claims that the make-believe adventures of the steam engines could leave ...

One mother could not believe her ears when her son's Thomas the Tank Engine toy seemed to be saying a crude phrase. The toy made for 18-month-old children by Fisher-Price repeats the phrase ...