Thomas And Friends Collection

The Thomas the Tank engines stories were created by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, who-?was born in Hampshire in 1911. He grew up close to the railway and was convinced that-?the steam engines all had different personalities. He used to imagine conversations-?between them. Later when he was grown up and his son Christopher became ill with-?measles, Wilbert invented the Thomas stories to entertain him. Christopher kept asking-?for more stories and Wilbert began writing them. The first of the Railway series books was-?published in 1945. Awdry wrote 26 Railway books in total before his son, Christopher,-?took over the series. There have since been multiple, hugely popular Thomas TV series.-?The latest is released in 2018 and sees the engines travelling the world!-?