She discovered the character in a series of 1940s children’s books and thought Ringo Starr would make a great Mr. Conductor on television. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Britt Allcroft, the British ...

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 ...

You know your video game has made it when it gets a Thomas the Tank engine mod. Skyrim, Resident Evil 2, Fallout 4, Elden Ring… the list of blockbuster games blessed with the terrifying sight and ...

Thomas the Tank Engine has become a gaming mod staple, having appeared in everything from Elden Ring to Skyrim over the years. Remarkably, though, the dread train has never appeared in Alien Isolation ...

On Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver dove deep into the topics of freight trains and how the decades of deregulation have led to several high-profile derailments. While ...

She adapted the children’s book series to TV, creating a lasting cultural behemoth that spawned movies, merchandise and theme parks. By Isabella Kwai Britt Allcroft, a British producer, director and ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the “Thomas the Tank Engine” series, has died. She was 81. Filmmaker Brannon Carty shared the news of Allcroft’s death on Instagram on Friday, Jan. 3. “It is with great ...

BIG CELEBRATION. I JUST COULDN’T WAIT TO JOIN YOU HERE TODAY. WE’RE GOING TO HAVE A TOTALLY AWESOME ADVENTURE. THOMAS, THE TALKING LITTLE BLUE ENGINE IS IN BALTIMORE HERE AT THE RAILROAD MUSEUM’S ...

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.

Trumann started writing for news around 2017-2018, with a specialization in local news and gaming reviews for a local paper. He began writing for GameRant in June 2021 as one of the team's Weekend ...

PERFECT. FOOTBALL WEATHER ZANE. THANK YOU. WELL, NEW AT NOON. THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE MAKES HIS WAY BACK TO BOONE THIS WEEKEND. THOMAS AND FRIENDS MARKS ITS 80TH ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR. THIS CARTOON HAS ...

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 ...