Since the television launch of Thomas the Tank Engine in the 1980s, this anthropomorphised steam locomotive has become a worldwide phenomenon. It likely would be difficult to find a child who ...

More recently, popular toy trains were tied to the Thomas and Friends television series ... Some of our model trains had modern engines, but for many, the older steam engines prevailed with ...

When Thomas finds out that the Earl's Technology Fair will bring new inventions to Sodor, he sets out to prove that steam engines are the best inventions ever. Watch all your favourite ABC programs on ...

Mark Miodownik shows a working model of a steam engine originally made the blacksmith Thomas Newcomen in 1712. These early steam engines produced a vacuum to generate power and were commonly used ...