The TV producer was behind bringing the beloved children's series to life in ... adapt Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s Railway Series. In 1984, the series aired as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends.

Allcroft was most known for producing popular children’s shows featuring Thomas the Tank Engine after obtaining the rights to adapt Reverand Wilbert Awdry’s “Railway Series” books in the ...

The series followed Thomas, a blue, anthropomorphised tank locomotive, and a fleet of his friends as they worked each day on the railway under the command of the Fat Controller. Allcroft’s death ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the beloved children’s series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, has died aged 81. In the 1970s, the TV producer secured the rights to adapt the Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s ...

Britt Allcroft, the ‘visionary’ creator behind the hit children’s TV show based on Thomas the Tank Engine, has reportedly died aged 81. The tragic news was announced by friend and filmmaker ...

Awdry's Railway Series books featuring Thomas the Tank Engine. After forming the Britt Allcroft Company with her husband, fellow TV producer Angus Wright, she spent four years raising the ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the “Thomas the Tank Engine” series, has died ... with whom Allcroft founded Britt Allcroft Railway Productions, later named The Britt Allcroft Company.

The "Thomas the Tank Engine" and his fans all ... after she secured the rights to Reverand Wilbert Awdry’s “Railway Series” in the '70s. The books would ultimately serve as the basis for ...

Allcroft produced a number of British television shows in the 1970s before securing the rights to Wilbert Awdry's Railway Series books, which featured the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine.

Commemorations are being held Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet ...

It was designed by Frank Furness, a famous architect during the Victorian ... and longtime faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania, originated. Vuchic told Railway Age that he had suggested ...