UK places tribute at former home of 'Thomas The Tank Engine' creator

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2025-10-17

London (PA Media/dpa) - A national blue plaque has been unveiled at the former home of "Thomas The Tank Engine" creator Reverend Wilbert Awdry in England. The unveiling, at 30 Rodborough Avenue in Stroud, Gloucestershire, marked 80 years since the first of the classic Thomas & Friends books, "The Three Railway Engines," was published. Awdry first told the tales of an imaginary railway and its engines, Edwards, Gordon and Henry, to his son Christo......

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