The series, which featured narration by The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and stand-up comedian Georga Carlin, was renamed to “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” and crossed the Atlantic in 1989 ...

She discovered the character in a series of 1940s children’s books and thought Ringo Starr would make a great Mr. Conductor on television.

Among the participants was the Reverend W Awdry, whose Thomas the ... d just read the Tank Engine books again and… I said that they would make a fine television series.” Awdry was apprehensive ...

Brannon Carty, who worked with Allcroft on his 2023 'An Unlikely Fandom' documentary, announced her death in a statement shared on X (formerly Twitter) Britt Allcroft, creator of beloved children ...