Rev. W. Awdry
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,…moreBorn
6/15/1911, Romsey, Hampshire, England, UKDied
3/21/1997Birth Name
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Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends
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Paint Pots & Queens
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He was the most succesful author of the twentieth century!
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Wilbert chose the title for the twenty seventh book, but he had forgotten about railways and needed new ideas. It was eventually written by his son Christopher in 1983, with the name Really Useful Engines.
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Wilbert actually introduced Jock the Small Engine in The Island of Sodor, three years before Christopher's book was published.
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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.
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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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