Britt Allcroft, a British television producer and writer who helped to develop “Thomas & Friends” based on “The Railway Series” books and its characters including Thomas the Tank Engine ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the beloved children’s series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, has died aged 81. In the 1970s, the TV producer secured the rights to adapt the Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s ...

Allcroft was most known for producing popular children’s shows featuring Thomas the Tank Engine after obtaining the rights to adapt Reverand Wilbert Awdry’s “Railway Series” books in the ...

The series followed ... first became aware of Thomas while making a 1979 documentary about the Bluebell Railway, a heritage railway in Sussex that featured in Awdry’s books.

In the 1970s, the TV producer secured the rights to adapt Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s Railway Series books featuring Thomas the Tank Engine for screen, which became the 1984 series Thomas the Tank ...