Just How Do 'Thomas & Friends' Drive Sodor's Economy? On the 70th anniversary of the books that spawned Thomas The Tank Engine, NPR's Elizabeth Blair considers the economic model of Thomas's home ...

The creator of ‘Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends’ has slammed its US reboot. Writer Britt Allcroft, 80, who produced the beloved children’s TV show from 1984 to 2003, said the legacy of the ...

Thomas the Tank Engine has been a beloved constant for kids for 80 years! In celebration of eight decades of Thomas and his friends, which began with Wilbert Awdry’s The Railway Series and evolved ...

Thomas The Tank Engine is coming to the rescue again. After countless episodes averting disaster on the fictional island of Sodor, Thomas and his railway friends have a real-life mission to help ...

Children’s programme Thomas And Friends is to introduce an “inclusive” gender-balanced, multicultural set of characters as part of a revamp. The new series of the animated show about Thomas the Tank ...

Just last night I was reading a Thomas the Tank engine story to my 2 year old daughter Vivian. She amazed me by pointing to the different trains on the pages and naming them. I mistakenly called one ...

‘Thomas The Tank Engine’ has undergone the biggest update in the children’s favourite’s history after years of accusations of sexism, racism and classism. The TV show, based on the books by Rev ...

Britt Allcroft, creator of the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends children's TV series, has died. The British-born producer died last week in Santa Monica, Calif., at 81. Thomas started out as a ...