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Thomas & Friends ranked number one in the preschool toys category in the U.S. and made the top 10 for the entire U.S. toy industry in 2010. In January 2011, Thomas & Friends ranked as the number-one preschool toy property in the U.K. for the 11th year in a row. Thomas is also a top-selling toy property in Australia, Germany, Japan, and Korea.
The Nene Valley Railway at Peterborough in England was the first railway to possess a full-scale replica of Thomas, constructed from an industrial tank engine built by Hudswell Clarke in 1947. It was nicknamed "Thomas" and in 1971 was officially named by Rev. W. Awdry. Since then other tank engines around the world have appeared as Thomas.
Heritage Wooden Railway - Stationed in Concord, New Hampshire, the company (which is a division of AeroPro, who creates scale models of airplanes) focuses on creating mass-produced custom wooden trains for passenger train lines, such as the Amtrak company, and museums such as the B&O Railway Museum, the Virginia Museum of Transportation, and ...
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 ...
He gains his first lines of dialogue as well as a face in the twenty-first series, and is the only character to appear in both Thomas & Friends and its sister series Tugs. USN 20t Tower Crane Rob Rackstraw Bulgy: A double-decker bus with an ideological opposition to railways. His catchphrase is "Free the roads!" AEC Regent III: Colin McFarlane ...
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Thomas & Friends (formerly known as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends) is a children's media franchise created by Britt Allcroft and currently owned by Mattel.The franchise revolves around an ensemble cast of anthropomorphic steam locomotives and other vehicles, including the main protagonist Thomas the Tank Engine, who work on the Island of Sodor.