Britt Allcroft, the creator of the “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” series, has died at age 81, filmmaker Brannon Carty announced on X. Allcroft was most known for producing popular children ...

Britt Allcroft, who co-created the beloved "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends" children's series, has died. She was 81.

REUTERS “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” began airing in the US in 1989. PA Images via Getty Images The producing duo was married for 20 years and divorced in 1997 — just one year before ...

Britt Allcroft, the producer behind the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine TV series Thomas And Friends, has died. Brannon Carty, ...

The beloved blue locomotive was first imagined in the 1940s — he starred in stories Rev. Wilbert Awdry told his son. Allcroft ...

Her original adaptation was a live-action production with a small budget that premiered in 1984 on the British channel ITV as “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends,” later shortened to “Thomas ...

after four years of sourcing the funds. She established her production firm, The Britt Allcroft Company, in the process. Allcroft’s Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends first aired on ITV on 9 ...

She eventually secured the rights to the “Railway Series” books from which the character Thomas the Tank Engine was ... “Thomas & Friends” went on to run for 27 years and today has ...

a project that became the 1984 series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (later retitled Thomas & Friends). Allcroft, along with her then husband and fellow TV producer Angus Wright, spent four years ...