


The first attempt to adapt Awdry's stories for television came in 1953, when the editor of the Railway Series books, Eric Marriott, was approached by the BBC, who wished to use live-action model trains to re-create two stories from Awdry's first book, The Three Railway Engines. The rights to the series are currently owned by HIT Entertainment (a subsidiary of Mattel), which acquired Gullane Entertainment in July 2002.Ī new 2D-animated series, Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go, premiered on 13 September 2021 on Cartoon Network. In the United States, it was first broadcast along with the spin-off series Shining Time Station on PBS' PTV Park block in 1989. The series follows the adventures of Thomas, an anthropomorphised blue steam locomotive on the fictional North Western Railway on the Island of Sodor, and several other anthropomorphised locomotives on the North Western Railway, including Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, and Toby. Awdry and his son Christopher, the series was developed for television by Britt Allcroft. Based on The Railway Series books by Rev. When you do this, Trainz will download the available dependencies from the Download Station during the download process.Thomas & Friends (originally known as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends and later Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures!) is a British children's television series that aired across 24 series from 1984 to 2021. To download an asset, either right click on it and click on 'download', or click on the 'download' button in the Asset Details window. This will show the description (if available), Author's username, kuid, and the thumbnail. To view the details of an asset, either double click on the asset or left click on it to select it, then press 'CTRL' + 'I'. You can add as many filters as you require for your search. This will show all content on the Download Station.ģ) To do a simple keyword search, simply enter your search (this can be more than 1 word) into the 'search' box at the top right.Ĥ) To do a more complex search using custom filters, open the filter list by clicking on the grey arrow to the left of 'Filter:'.ĥ) Click on the '+' button on the right to add a new filter to the list.Ħ) Select the desired filter from the list in the left hand box.įor example, if you want just locomotives, select the 'category' filter, then set the right hand box to 'locomotive'. Use the following steps to search for content:ġ) Open Content Manager by clicking on 'Manage Content' on the launcher screen.Ģ) Select the 'Download Station' option in the Filter: dropdown list.

For the Download Station, we recommend searching for and downloading content using the included Content Manager in Trainz.
