Growing up in the south of England in the early 1950s, Britt Allcroft liked to stop at a railway bridge on her walk to school and wait for a steam train to come charging by. “That wonderful ...

Allcroft adapted Awdry's... Britt Allcroft, who brought Thomas the Tank Engine to television, dies at 81 Britt Allcroft, creator of the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends children's TV ...

LOS ANGELES — Britt Allcroft, the woman who created Thomas the Tank Engine, has died. She was 81. Filmmaker Brannon Carty announced her death on social media Thursday at the request of her family.