Interesting Thomas the Tank facts:
Thomas the Tank Engine is fifty years old. The stories were first created by an Anglican clergyman, the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, as a way of entertaining his young son Christopher as he recovered, in isolation, from scarlet fever. Christopher demanded that he be told the stories again and again and, in the way of small children, corrected his father whenever inconsistencies crept into the retold stories. In self defense the Rev. Awdry wrote the first stories down on available scraps of paper. To add to the story telling, simple pictures of steam locomotives were drawn. Edmund Ward, a small publisher, was interested in these railway stories. The connection was made so suddenly that the Rev. Awdry had to send the stories as they were written on scraps of paper as the original manuscript. Nevertheless, in 1945 the first of the Railway Series of books "The Three Railway Engines" appeared.
Source: Ian Gunn
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