The series aired as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends from 1984 until 2021. Allcroft’s family remembered her as an “adoring mother and wife and visionary producer” in an emotional statement.

Thomas the Tank Engine was created in 1945 by Reverend Wilbert Awdry to entertain his son Christopher who was recovering from illness. The popular books reached the screen in 1984 with former ...

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