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!-