She adapted the children’s book series to TV, creating a lasting cultural behemoth that spawned movies, merchandise and theme ...

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

Allcroft, from Worthing, England, produced several shows for British television during the 1970s before securing the rights ...

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

Britt Allcroft, a British television producer and writer who helped to develop “Thomas & Friends” based on “The Railway ...

Britt Allcroft, the producer who adapted Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends for television, has died. She was 81. According to ...

LOS ANGELES — Britt Allcroft, the woman who created Thomas the Tank Engine, has died. She was 81. Filmmaker Brannon Carty ...

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

Awdry's Railway Series books featuring Thomas the Tank Engine. After forming the Britt Allcroft Company with her husband, fellow TV producer Angus Wright, she spent four years raising the ...

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 ...

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Britt Allcroft, the British writer, director and producer who steered the animated locomotive Thomas the Tank Engine to television 40 years ago en route to launching a ...