By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Britt Allcroft, the British writer, director and producer who steered the animated locomotive Thomas the Tank Engine to television 40 years ago en route to launching a ...

Allcroft adapted Awdry's... Britt Allcroft, who brought Thomas the Tank Engine to television, dies at 81 Britt Allcroft, creator of the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends children's TV ...

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 ...