Britt Allcroft: she became one of Britain’s wealthiest women - PA Britt Allcroft, who has died aged 81, was the entrepreneur who transformed Thomas the Tank Engine into an international phenomenon, ...

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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, died on Dec.

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 as a ...

The beloved blue locomotive was first imagined in the 1940s — he starred in stories Rev. Wilbert Awdry told his son. Allcroft adapted Awdry's... Britt Allcroft, who brought Thomas the Tank Engine to ...