Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends ran for 24 series until January 2021 with a total of 584 episodes. Allcroft stepped down as executive producer in the early 2000s.

Allcroft was best known as a producer for several shows, including Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends after obtaining the rights to the Rev. W. Awdry's Railway Series books featuring Thomas the Tank ...

Thomas the Tank Engine first appeared in The Railway Series books by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry and his son, Christopher Awdry, which was first published in 1945.

To commemorate the anniversary -- or Thomas’ birthday, whatever you want to call it -- below is a quiz on facts about the Tank Engine.

Now, 75 years later, children around the globe are still delighting in the stories of Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends and their adventures on the Island of Sodor.

Thomas, the talking little blue engine, is in Baltimore at the B&O Railroad Museum's Restoration Center for two weekends of family fun to celebrate his 80th birthday.

DULUTH — Thomas the Tank Engine is returning to the Northland this summer, but he'll be meeting families in Two Harbors instead of Duluth. For over two decades, the anthropomorphic locomotive's ...

New Thomas the Tank Engine Movie in Development Toy company Mattel and production company 2Dux will be teaming up on a feature film based on the Thomas & Friends franchise — better known to many ...

Britt Allcroft, creator of the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends children's TV series, has died. The British-born producer died last week in Santa Monica, Calif., at 81.

Britt Allcroft in 1973, more than a decade before “Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends” debuted on British television. C. Woods/Daily Express, via Hulton Archive, via Getty Images ...

Britt Allcroft, Creator of TV’s ‘Thomas the Tank Engine,’ Dies at 81 She discovered the character in a series of 1940s children’s books and thought Ringo Starr would make a great Mr ...