The Three Railway Engines (1945)

The first book in the Reverend Awdry’s Railway Series sketched out a world of living engines, existing in relation to humans and rolling stock, governed by a clearly Christian moral framework.

William C. Dalby’s redrawn illustration of Henry bricked up in a tunnel, being admonished by the Fat Director, at the end of ‘The Sad Story of Henry’ in 1945’s The Three Railway Engines (Edmund Ward).

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This post is part of the ‘Rewound’ series of analyses of objects or episodes from cultural and political history.