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The conservatism of Thomas the Tank Engine

10 May 2025

9:00 AM

10 May 2025

9:00 AM

Ringo Starr is mostly known as the second or third best drummer in the Beatles. But for me – as for many children of the past four decades – he will forever be the voice of Thomas the Tank Engine.

This week marks 80 years since the publication of The Three Railway Engines, the first book in the Revd Wilbert Awdry’s Railway Series.

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