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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.
An ochre gold tank engine, named after a district in London, from the Bluebell Railway. In the Railway Series, his friendly and enthusiastic attitude makes him a welcome visitor on the Fat Controller's railway. LB&SCR A1X class: Class 40: BR D4711 A big green diesel engine who once visited the North Western Railway on loan from British Railways.
Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends is the TV spin-off from The Railway Series. As such, it shares many characters with the original books but also introduces a vast array of new characters. These, too, are collated in a set of lists: List of Thomas & Friends characters; List of Thomas & Friends film characters
The Tirur railway station, opened in 1861, is the oldest railway station in Kerala. The first railway service in Kerala was on 1861 March 12 and it serviced from Beypore to Tirur for 30.5 km. First Railway service in erstwhile Travancore was started on 1904 November 26. It was Sengottai - Punalur Metre-gauge railway.
List of The Railway Series books – for the forty books directly from the series; List of books related to The Railway Series – for any others we care to add, starting with the three non-fiction works at the top of the page. I think we've been quite restrained so far; for example: each of the 33+ books in the Asterix series has its own ...
An American Airlines flight departing New York's LaGuardia Airport on Thursday evening had to divert to nearby John F. Kennedy International shortly after takeoff after a reported bird strike ...
The Nilgiri Mountain Railway, a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge rack railway in the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu was opened in 1908 and is the only operational rack railway in India. [ 158 ] [ 157 ] These railways operate with its own dedicated fleet of locomotives and coaches.