The Railway Stories are a series of audio adaptations of The Railway Series books by the Rev. W Awdry and his son Christopher. Nearly all of the 42 books...

stories. Nearly all of The Railway Series stories were based on real-life events. As a lifelong railway enthusiast, Awdry was keen that his stories should...

2021 on Cartoon Network. The first attempt to adapt Awdry's stories for television came in 1953, when the editor of the Railway Series books, Eric Marriott...

Awdry wrote six stories featured in two books concerning railway safety, which were distributed to every primary school and library in the country (Bad Days...

Barnard said that this novel was "The best of the railway stories. The Orient Express, snowed up in Yugoslavia, provides the ideal 'closed' set-up for a classic-style...

1945. These stories were not intended to take place in a single volume, or even on the same railway. Edward, Gordon and Henry was written at the insistence...

from British Railways to allow him to write the stories he wanted. He was inspired during a 1950 visit to the Isle of Man, which forms the Diocese of Sodor...

narrated books 1–11 of The Railway Stories, recordings of the Railway Series books by the Rev. W. Awdry. The recordings of the first eight books were...

on The Railway Series had been in development since 1953, when Eric Marriott was approached by the BBC to adapt two stories based on the Railway Series...

The Railway Series (1945–2011) is a series of British books by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry (Books 1–26) and Christopher Awdry (Books 27–42). Unless otherwise...

sphere of the original stories, usually in reference to someone who runs a railway. The character is first seen in "The Sad Story of Henry" in the first book...

Manchester. The story concerns a family who move from London to The Three Chimneys, a house near a railway, after the father, who works at the Foreign Office...

the second book in the series, Thomas the Tank Engine, and was the focus of the four short stories contained within. In The Railway Series and early episodes...

into the stories. Awdry's enthusiasm for railways did not stop at his publications. He was involved in railway preservation, and built model railways, which...

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Agumbe situated in the Shivamogga district of the Indian state of Karnataka in the novels and short stories of R. K. Narayan. It forms the setting for most...

An elevated railway or elevated train (also known as an el train or el for short) is a railway with the tracks above street level on a viaduct or other...

1904) "The Adventure of the Second Stain" (December 1904) Contains 7 stories published 1908–1917. Many editions of His Last Bow have eight stories, with...

The Cape to Cairo Railway was an unfinished project to create a railway line crossing from southern to northern Africa. It would have been the largest...

The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, also known as the DHR or the Toy Train, is a 610 mm (2 ft) gauge railway that runs between New Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling...

audiences in the UK and US. It was notable for being the first series since the show’s fourth to directly adapt stories from the original Railway Series books...

tournaments and as a result he gets selected for the Railways. After a good performance, he tries-out for the India national under-19 cricket team selections...

The interurban (or radial railway in Canada) is a type of electric railway, with tram-like electric self-propelled rail cars which run within and between...

Hi-Tech City railway station in Hyderabad, Telangana, India located on the Wadi–Hyderabad Deccan section of South Central Railway. Jawaharlal Nehru Technological...

Toby the Tram Engine is a fictional anthropomorphic tram locomotive in The Railway Series by the Reverend Wilbert Vere Awdry and his son, Christopher...

By His Grace: A Devotee's Story. Hanuman Foundation. ISBN 0-9628878-7-0. Mukerjee, Dada (2001). The Near and the Dear: Stories Neeb Karori Ji Maharaj. Shri...

The Railway Man is a 2013 war film directed by Jonathan Teplitzky. It is an adaptation of the 1995 autobiography of the same name by Eric Lomax, and stars...

series would begin to use original stories by the production staff, with some of the remaining Railway Series stories deemed "repetitive and too 'storybook'...

of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England. The Underground has its origins in the Metropolitan Railway, opening...

The Algoma Central Railway (reporting mark AC) is a railway in Northern Ontario, Canada, that operates between Sault Ste. Marie and Hearst. It used to...