Growing up in the south of England in the early 1950s, Britt Allcroft liked to stop at a railway bridge on her walk to school and wait for a steam train to come charging by. “That wonderful ...

Britt Allcroft, a British television producer and writer who helped to develop “Thomas & Friends” based on “The Railway Series” books and its characters including Thomas the Tank Engine ...

Britt Allcroft, the creative force who brought Thomas the Tank Engine to television screens worldwide, has tragically passed away at age 81. The visionary TV producer was instrumental in the ...

PHOTOS Celebrity Deaths: 2024's Fallen Stars It wasn't until over a decade later that she and her husband—fellow producer Angue Wright—started the production company The Britt Allcroft Company ...

Britt Allcroft, creator of the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends children's TV series, has died. The British-born producer died last week in Santa Monica, Calif., at 81. Thomas started out ...

LOS ANGELES — Britt Allcroft, the woman who created Thomas the Tank Engine, has died. She was 81. Filmmaker Brannon Carty announced her death on social media Thursday at the request of her family.

Thomas the Tank Engine creator Britt Allcroft has died aged 81. The producer brought the beloved children's series to TV screens after securing the rights to adapt Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s ...

PHOTOS Celebrity Deaths: 2024's Fallen Stars It wasn't until over a decade later that she and her husband — fellow producer Angue Wright — started the production company The Britt Allcroft ...

Britt Allcroft, the British writer, director and producer who steered the animated locomotive Thomas the Tank Engine to television 40 years ago en route to launching a beloved, lucrative franchise ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the beloved children’s series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, has died aged 81. Allcroft, along with her then husband and fellow TV producer Angus Wright ...