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The North Western Railway (NWR) is the main standard gauge rail network on the Island of Sodor. The railway's motto is "Nil Unquam Simile", which is Latin for "There's nothing quite like it". From nationalisation on January 1, 1948, until it was privatised, the railway was the North Western Region of British Railways (BR). From 1925 onwards, it ...
The Railway Series characters (2 C, 5 P) I. The Railway Series illustrators (4 P) Pages in category "The Railway Series"
The Railway Series is a series of British books about a railway known as the North Western Railway, located on the fictional Island of Sodor. There are 42 books in the series, the first published in May 1945 by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry. Twenty-six books were written by Awdry, the final one being written in October 1972.
Gary Warren (born 5 July 1954) is an English former child actor, best remembered for his role as Peter in the 1970 film The Railway Children. Retired actor Gary Warren was born in Neasden, London. He played Cedric Collingford ("Owl Face") in series 2 of the 1970 television series Catweazle, appearing as the main 20th century contact of ...
Clarence Reginald Dalby (28 January 1904 – 3 April 1983), born in Leicester, England, was the third illustrator of The Railway Series by W.V. Awdry and a Royal Air Force intelligence officer during the Second World War.
Station for Two (Russian: Вокзал для двоих, romanized: Vokzal dlya dvoikh) is a 1983 Soviet romantic comedy directed by Eldar Ryazanov. The film became the Soviet box office leader of 1983 with a total of 35.8 million ticket sales. It was entered into the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. [1]
Toby first appeared in the 21st episode of the first series of the television show in 1984 and was one of the main characters. In the TV series, Toby's railway was on the north of Sodor, instead of being in East Anglia and it was reopened in the fifth series. In that series, Toby gets swept down the river after a dam breaks and later discovers ...
The Railway Children is a 2000 drama television film based on the 1906 novel by E. Nesbit. It was broadcast for the first time in the United Kingdom on 23 April 2000 (which was Easter Sunday). Shortly afterwards, it was shown in the United States on the series Masterpiece Theatre.