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![]() I hope you will like them because you helped me to make them. He wanted to come out of his station yard and see the world. The book was published on 14th September 1946 in the United Kingdom.įoreword Dear Christopher, Here is your friend Thomas the Tank Engine. ![]() Payne finished the illustrations in April 1946, which were more bold and eye-catching than the previous book. Although initially annoyed, Awdry was content after finding out the design was based off a real locomotive, and he allowed it to stay in the series. Instead of illustrating Thomas as the engine Awdry intended, Payne illustrated Thomas as an E2 0-6-0 tank engine, as Payne was a southern man, and thus based Thomas off a southern engine. Payne was provided sketches by Awdry as a guide for the illustrations, and he slavishly followed them in order to complete the quota. However, after The Three Railway Engines was published in 1945, it was decided that a second book about Thomas would be made.Īwdry was unhappy with William Middleton's illustrations for The Three Railway Engines, which led to Edmund Ward paying another artist named Reginald Payne £94 10s to illustrate the book in November 1945. Thomas was originally created by Wilbert Awdry as a wooden toy for his son Christopher as a Christmas gift in 1942.
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