Rev. W. Awdry

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Biography

Wilbert Vere Awdry was born on 15 June 1911. His father, Vere Awdry, a clergyman, would walk him around railways in Hampshire. Until 1916,…more

Born

6/15/1911, Romsey, Hampshire, England, UK

Died

3/21/1997

Birth Name

Wilbert Vere Awdry

Gender

Male

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    • Wilbert: [Of the parallels between the railways and the Church] Both had their heyday in the mid-nineteenth century; both own a great deal of Gothic style architecture which is expensive to maintain; both are regularly assailed by critics; and both are firmly convinced that they are the best means of getting man to his ultimate destination.
    • Wilbert: Lying in bed as a child I would hear a heavy goods train coming in and stopping at Box station, then the three whistles, crowing for a banker, a tank engine, which would come out of it's little shed to help the goods train up the gradient. There was no doubt in my mind that steam engines all had definite personalities. I would hear them snorting up the grade and little imagination was needed to hear in the puffings and pantings of the two engines the conversations they were having with one another: "I can't do it! I can't do it!" "Yes you can! Yes you can!"
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