![]() While most of the books took place on the mainline North Western Railway, later books would showcase several other railways on the island, such as the narrow gauge Skarloey Railway, The miniature Arlesdale Railway and the mountain Culdee Fell Railway, each with their own cast of unique engines and misadventures separated from the mainline railway. ![]() A decade later, the series resumed under his son, Christopher Vere Awdry, who would go on to write 16 more novels in the series (as well as some additional tie-in stuff) until he also retired in 2011, making up for a whopping 42 books.Įvery book contains a small collection of short stories that revolve around a large Ensemble Cast of talking engines owned by the Fat Controller, and the various misadventures they have on the island of Sodor, a fictional island set right in-between Great Britain and the Isle of Man. The original Railway Series consists of 26 books and ran from 1945 to 1972, in which Wilbert retired afterwards. Originally starting off as small stories to entertain his son Christopher, thanks to a little convincing by his wife, he would go on to publish these stories in a short children’s book called The Three Railway Engines in 1945, kickstarting the series. The Railway Series is a series of British children's books that started in the mid 1940s by the late Reverend Wilbert Awdry (or Rev.
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