The series aired as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends from 1984 until 2021. Allcroft’s family remembered her as an “adoring mother and wife and visionary producer” in an emotional statement.

Thomas Land, a Thomas the Tank Engine-inspired theme park opened in Fujikyu Highland Theme Park in Japan in 1998, and in 2000, the first feature-length film release inspired by the book series ...

Did ‘My Hero Academia’ Just Introduce an Evil Thomas the Tank Engine? Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia is no stranger to shoutouts to outside superhero series 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.

A new Resident Evil 2 mod for PC players takes Thomas the Tank Engine and transplants him into the game, replacing the terrifying Tyrant Mr. X with the children's TV character.

And the same is true of Thomas. If Thomas was allowed to leave the tracks, fly off into the air, or if his steam engine did not follow the laws of thermodynamics, his universe would not function. His ...

The Thomas the Tank Engine universe was the brainchild of an Anglican minister, the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, who in 1942 began spinning stories about trains to amuse his son Christopher, who had ...

Thomas the Tank Engine has (unofficially) crept into several games, and his presence has never been as cheery as what you’d expect from a children’s cartoon.