
Thomas, a Tank Engine, is not Thomas the Tank Engine.
S1E25 · 2026-09-07 · 16 min
At the Nene Valley Railway in Huntingdonshire, I meet a tank engine called Thomas that is, for legal reasons, not Thomas the Tank Engine... and, to my surprise, I find out why, in the early days of steam, Victorians might have found trains terrifying.
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