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2. Category:The Railway Series illustrators - Wikipedia

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   This category features the illustrators of The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry and his son Christopher. Pages in category "The Railway Series illustrators" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.

3. Peter and Gunvor Edwards - Wikipedia

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   After John T. Kenney resigned from the Railway Series due to failing eyesight, editor Eric Marriot decided to ask Swedish-born artist Gunvor Edwards to see whether she would try her hand at some illustrations for the latest book, Stepney the "Bluebell" Engine. Gunvor accepted the commission and decided to start well into the book with the ...

4. The Railway Series - Wikipedia

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   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. Awdry wrote 26 books; the final one being written in October 1972.

5. Clive Spong - Wikipedia

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   Spong is a graduate of Leicester College of Art, like John T. Kenney and Clarence Reginald Dalby, who were among the earlier illustrators of the Railway Series books.He remained the illustrator throughout the run of Christopher Awdry's 14 books, illustrating more titles in the series than any other artist.

6. John T. Kenney - Wikipedia

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   Kenney was born in 1911 and trained at the Leicester College of Art, the same school that produced Clarence Reginald Dalby, the first illustrator of the Railway Series. Upon graduation he was employed by J.E. Slater, a firm of commercial artists located in Leicester.

7. List of books in The Railway Series - Wikipedia

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   The first appearance of Diesel and City of Truro. This would be Diesel's only canonical appearance in the Railway Series, but he became a recurring antagonistic presence in the TV series. In the book's first illustration, a vicar and a man in a bow tie are seen looking at Duck. Brian Sibley suggests that these men are supposed to be the Rev. W ...

8. Clarence Reginald Dalby - Wikipedia

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   He was replaced by John T. Kenney as illustrator. Dalby, a Leicester man, was also the creator of the original trademark polar bear on Fox's Glacier Mints. [8] Fox's was a firm based in Leicester, which was also home to the Railway Series publishers Edmund Ward. [9] Dalby died in 1983, aged 79, following a short illness.

9. The Railway Stories - Wikipedia

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   The first known audio adaptation was a 7" (33⅓rpm) EP narrated by the Rev. W. Awdry himself (), with "background effects taken from real engines". This record, released in 1957 by Chiltern Records of Princes Risborough, contained two stories – Edward's Day Out and Edward and Gordon – from the first book in the Railway Series: The Three Railway Engines.