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Awdry's memorial plaque, shared with his wife Margaret, at Church Place, Rodborough, Gloucestershire A Class 91 locomotive, 91 124, used to bear the name The Rev W Awdry.A Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST (saddle tank) engine on the Dean Forest Railway is named Wilbert after him; and was used as the title character in Christopher Awdry's Railway Series book Wilbert the Forest Engine.
On Awdry's model railway, [9] Toby was represented by a Y6, [10] an 0-4-0 locomotive similar to but smaller than the J70 [11] [2] and better suited to the 4-wheel motor bogie available to power the model. [10] In 1961, Awdry wrote an article for Railway Modeller magazine on the construction of this locomotive. [10]
The Class 28 was the inspiration for the character James the Red Engine from The Railway Series books by the Rev W Awdry, and the spin-off TV series Thomas and Friends. [3] Awdry describes James as an experimental rebuild as a 2-6-0 with 5 ft 6 in driving wheels. The other obvious visual difference from the Class 28 is the lack of a leading ...
An A1X class locomotive, Stepney appears in Stepney the "Bluebell" Engine, one of the books in The Railway Series of children's books written by the Rev. W. Awdry. Boxhill was referred to in a later book in the series: Thomas and the Great Railway Show. Stepney also appears in the television adaptation Thomas & Friends.
The Rev. W. Awdry was for about 12 years the vicar of Emneth, a village near Wisbech, and he drew much inspiration from the tramway for stories in his Railway Series children's books. In the book, Toby the Tram Engine , the character Toby , and his coach Henrietta are introduced, and later Mavis the Quarry Diesel is introduced in Tramway Engines .
Peter Edwards (1934 – 2017) and Gunvor Edwards (1934 – 2014) were two Swedish-English impressionistic artists who illustrated several of The Railway Series books by the Rev. W. Awdry from 1963 to 1972. Gunvor died at the age of 80 on 23 April 2014 from dementia, and Peter died at the age of 83 on 3 April 2017 from cancer.
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In some of W. Awdry's later books he appeared as the Thin Clergyman and was described as a writer, though his name and connections to the series were never made explicit. He was invariably accompanied by the Fat Clergyman , based on the Rev. Teddy Boston , [ 9 ] who was a fellow railway enthusiast and close friend.