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The Awdry Connection. The Rev. Wilbert Awdry inherited an interest in railways from his father, the Rev. Vere Awdry, and together with his brother George, became a keen railway modeller. His first book in what was to become The Railway Series had been published in 1945, and by 1951 he had written four more. In February that year someone knowing ...
Mar 21, 1997 · Find a Grave Memorial ID: 15706278. Source citation. Author. He was the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine, a popular character in children's fiction. Awdry originally invented the stories as a way of entertaining his young son Christopher as he recovered from scarlet fever. The first book of the series, The Three Railway Engines, was published ...
May 23, 2015 · There were two big passions that ran down the Awdry line: one was trains, and Wilbert’s father, Vere, whose heyday had been in the Victorian train age, was as fascinated by them as his son and ...
The Railway Series is a series of books about the railways of the Island of Sodor. The books were created by the Rev. W. Awdry, who wrote the first stories in 1942. He wrote twenty-six books from 1945 to 1972. A further sixteen books were written by his son Christopher Awdry. The final book in the series, Thomas and his Friends, was published in 2011. The series formed the basis for Thomas ...
Wilbert Awdry. Writer: Thomas' Friendship Tales. Wilbert Awdry was born on 15 June 1911 in Romsey, Hampshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Thomas' Friendship Tales (2017), Thomas & Friends ERTL Adventures: The Rise of Spamcan (2023) and Thomas & Friends ERTL Adventures: Railway Clone Invasion (2022).
Reverend Wilbert Vere Awdry (15 June 1911 – 21 March 1997), credited as simply "the Rev. W. Awdry", was an English children's author, railway enthusiast, and cleric best known for writing The Railway Series. The son of an Anglican vicar, Awdry would see and hear the engines of the Great Western Railway from his childhood home in Wiltshire ...
Wilbert Vere Awdry, OBE (15 June 1911 – 21 March 1997), was an English clergyman, railway enthusiast and children's author, better known as the Reverend W. Awdry and creator of Thomas the Tank Engine, who starred in Awdry's acclaimed Railway Series. Awdry was born at Ampfield vicarage near Romsey, Hampshire in 1911. Awdry's father was the Rev Vere Awdry, the vicar of Ampfield, and his mother ...
