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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.
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.
This book is a companion volume to the Railway Series, providing comprehensive biographies of the characters within the books and exploring the origins of the stories. Like The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways, it included aspects of the fictional universe that were never featured in the Railway Series stories. It described the ...
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.
The Railway Series illustrators (4 P) Pages in category "The Railway Series" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
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.
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 1 January 1948, until it was privatised, the railway was the North Western Region of British Railways (BR). From 1925 onwards, it ...
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.
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