The Three Railway Engines (found original edition of book; 1945)
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The original cover of the book created by William Middleton.
Status: Found
Date found: 14 Dec 2014
Found by: SkarloeyRailway01
The Three Railway Engines is the first ever book about The Railway Series published in 1945. However, when it was first published, it had slightly different illustrations as William Middleton originally drew them. They were all lost when Clarence Reginald Dalby re-improved new ones.
In 2005, some of the Middleton illustrations were uploaded on a Thomas the Tank Engine fansite. More were shown on the Sodor Island Fansite in 2007 and 2008. On December 2nd, 2014, Thomas the Tank Engine Wikia user "SkarloeyRailway01" finally uploaded the original versions of all these Middleton illustrations.
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External Link
- Thomas the Tank Engine Wiki page on The Three Railway Engines. Retrieved 19 Dec '20