She wanted to create an unconventional show that would enchant children. And she knew she found her perfect narrator in Ringo ...

The Point Pleasant Beach Branch of Ocean County Library is in the midst of its annual Thomas the Tank Engine Week, when ...

The books were the basis for the “Thomas the Tank Engine” television show, which premiered in 1984 and featured narration by The Beatles’ Ringo Starr. The series about a talking train and ...

Ms. Allcroft was the driving force behind bringing Thomas the Tank Engine, an animated locomotive first conceived in a series of children’s books in the 1940s by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry ...

Britt Allcroft, the creative genius behind the beloved children’s television series Thomas the Tank Engine, has passed away at the age of 81. Allcroft’s passing marks the end of an era for a ...

The books would ultimately serve as the basis for "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends," which debuted in 1984 after the couple took four years to secure enough funding to produce the first 26 ...

She discovered the character in a series of 1940s children’s books and thought Ringo Starr would make a great Mr. Conductor on television.