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Christopher Vere Awdry (born 2 July 1940) is an English author. He is best known for his contributions to The Railway Series of books featuring Thomas the Tank Engine, which was started by his late father, Wilbert Awdry (1911–1997).
Christopher Vere Awdry (born 2 July 1940) is an English writer who is the son of Wilbert Awdry, his father who originally created The Railway Series. He is best known for co-creating Thomas the Tank Engine with his father, as well as continuing The Railway Series from 1983 to 2011.
Christopher Awdry was a keen railway enthusiast like his father. On a visit to the Nene Valley Railway he was inspired to write his first story Triple Header based on a railwayman's account of a locomotive running out of steam short of its destination.
Sep 24, 2010 · Thomas the Tank Engine had humble beginnings as the star of stories that the Rev. Wilbert Awdry told his son Christopher in 1942, when Christopher was sick in bed with the measles.
Dec 26, 2023 · Awdry created stories about steam trains to entertain his son Christopher, aged three, when he was sick with a bout of measles in 1943.
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...
Aug 28, 2015 · Interview: Christopher Awdry, author. This is the 70th anniversary of the first book in the Thomas the Tank Engine Railway Series begun by my father, Wilbert — the Revd W. Awdry. There has been a party in London, a film première of a Thomas film for children, and a new Thomas theme park, Thomasland, opened in Edaville, near Boston, in ...
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