Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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The Rev. W. Awdry's RAILWAY STORIES
Book 2: THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE
Published by Edmund Ward in 1946
Read aloud by me on May 2-13, 2025

Illustrations by Reginald Payne with modifications by C. Reginald Dalby
Special thanks to @TheUnluckyTug_official for the illustrations featured.

Thomas is a fussy, cheeky little tank engine whom we meet here for the first time. He proves to be such a Really Useful Engine that he is given a Branch Line all to himself.

OUR STORY STOPS ARE:
1. Thomas and Gordon
2. Thomas's Train
3. Thomas and the Trucks
4. Thomas and the Breakdown Train