This is a story about Edward the Blue Engine. As an older engine, he could be noisy and rather slow. The big engines called him names, but Edward soon had the chance to prove there was more to him than 'Old Iron'
This is Book 51 in the My Thomas Story Library Series. See all My Thomas Story Library books here.
Reverend Wilbert Awdry was born in Hampshire in 1911. He grew up close to the railway and was convinced that the steam engines all had different personalities. He used to imagine conversations between them. Later when he was grown up and his son Christopher became ill with measles, Wilbert invented the Thomas stories to entertain him. Christopher kept asking
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