Britt Allcroft, the creator of the "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends" series, has died at age 81, filmmaker Brannon Carty announced on X. Allcroft was most known for producing popular children's shows ...

Get ready, preschoolers — there's going to be a new Thomas the Tank Engine rolling into town. Mattel says that it's planning a full franchise relaunch of Thomas & Friends, the long-running children's ...

Thomas started out as a character in a series of books dating back to the 1940s by Rev. Wilbert Awdry, an English Anglican minister and train enthusiast. Awdry's The Railway Series revolved around a ...

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, died on Dec.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A special guest has arrived in Baltimore for a big birthday party at the B&O Railroad Museum as "Thomas the Tank Engine" turns 80 ...