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A pair of books written to highlight rail safety using characters from the Railway Series. They were written partially due to Christopher Awdry's frustration at not being able to include a proper rail safety story in his 1991 Railway Series book Thomas and the Great Railway Show ("published 10 years before"). Bad Days for Thomas and His Friends ...
The Railway Series is a series of British books about a railway known as the North Western Railway, located on the fictional Island of Sodor. There are 42 books in the series, the first published in May 1945 by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry. Twenty-six books were written by Awdry, the final one being written in October 1972.
The final book of the series was Thomas and his Friends. Many special and annual books were written that were not a part of the book series, such as The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways, a companion book alongside the series. Other special books include expanded versions of Railway Series stories, such as Thomas Comes to Breakfast.
The North Western Railway (NWR) is the main standard gauge rail network on the Island of Sodor. The railway's motto is "Nil Unquam Simile", which is Latin for "There's nothing quite like it". From nationalisation on January 1, 1948 until it was privatised, the railway was the North Western Region of British Railways (BR). From 1925 onwards, it ...
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It was made to commemorate the 70th anniversary of The Railway Series, and was the first installment to officially adapt a story from The Railway Series since series 4. The film also saw John Hasler and Joseph May take over the voice role of Thomas the Tank Engine in the United Kingdom and the United States respectively.
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