A blue plaque will be unveiled at the former home of Thomas the Tank Engine creator Reverend Wilbert Awdry later. The ceremony marks 80 years since the first of the classic Thomas & Friends books was ...

The fourth floor of Liberty Science Center is home to the area's hottest new attraction for the tot set. That's where LSC is housing its "Thomas & Friends: Explore the Rails" exhibit, which opened on ...

Historic England is to unveil a national blue plaque at the former home of Thomas the Tank Engine creator Reverend Wilbert Awdry. Rev Awdry was born in June 1911 in the small village of Ampfield, in ...

As a child, the Rev. Wilbert Awdry would imagine that the nearby steam engines he could hear were talking to each other. When he became a father himself, he used that memory to create stories to tell ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today, Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT), kicks off worldwide celebrations for the 75th anniversary of the iconic global preschool brand, Thomas & Friends™. The ...

Thomas the Tank Engine began as a series of books written by Reverend Wilbert Awdry A blue plaque will be unveiled at the former home of Thomas the Tank Engine creator Reverend Wilbert Awdry later.

Historic England is to unveil a national blue plaque at the former home of Thomas the Tank Engine creator Reverend Wilbert Awdry. The unveiling, at 30 Rodborough Avenue in Stroud, Gloucestershire, ...