Question Time with Sir Topham Hatt Cassette

Question Time with Sir Topham Hatt Cassette

Today we released the first side of the Question Time with Sir Topham Hatt cassette released exclusively for members of The Thomas Club in 1998. We previously uploaded this audio on our old channel a few years ago and it proved very popular, therefore we thought it was due a revamp! 

This time the audio is much higher quality and the video is considerably better! We recreated the original cover to fit a widescreen video. To do this we combined the illustrations and text from the original cassette cover onto a single image and we the think the result is quite good.Please feel free to leave a comment below. 

The 'Question Time with Sir Topham Hatt' cassette is very hard to get hold of now due to the fact that it was released exclusively for Thomas Club members. An even rarer edition of this cassette is the 2000 re-release which features the new logo.

Here is a scan of the re-released cassette cover to give you a comparison, the content is identical. We hope you enjoy both sides of the cassette and please feel free to leave a comment here or on the video!








You can listen to the audio from the first side here:

Side two is now available as well!

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The Rev.W.Awdry Record

The Rev.W.Awdry Record

In 1957, 12 years after the release of the first book in the Railway Series which was of course the Three Railway Engines, Chiltern Records LTD. released a 7in Long Playing single featuring the two first stories from the aforementioned book. This was the first and last time published recordings were released of the Rev.W.Awdry narrating his own stories. 

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The story telling was accompanied by steam engine sounds, which as you will hear are quite loud! The recording was only ever released on this record and not many copies of this record were made. The record was advertised in various merchandise of the time. Below is a fantastic advertisement featuring both the record and more prominently the press out model books of the late 1950s and 1960s. 

Jim Gratton - www.pegnsean.net

Sadly the record was not very successful and no other records were made, which is a shame, it would have nice to hear other stories told the way the author intended. An extract from the book "Sounds of the Railways and Their Recordings" released in 1981 explains why this particular record was not very successful. 

Sounds of the Railways and Their Recordings 1981

This mentions a small production run, suggesting that the record was not only produced on a small scale but also only produced in one year. All this makes this record very scarce and a fantastic addition to anyone's collection. We will be releasing both sides (unrestored) on our Youtbe channel and have already released a short video summarising the points discussed in more detail in this post. If you would still like to know more, head over to our OneDrive folder linked below, where you can find the pictures featured in this article and in our Youtube video. 

With thanks to The Railway Stories Collection for helping me find information about this record. You can head over to his channel to see his digitally remastered upload of this record. 

ThomasTankCollectables Rev.W.Awdry Record Video

ThomasTankCollectables OneDrive FolderDigitally remastered audio supplied by The Railway Stories Collection

Ladybird Audios Follow Up

Ladybird Audios Follow Up 

Our biggest project of last year was of course releasing all 26 Ladybird stories for the first time in one place. It was a lot of work converting the cassettes to MP3 and putting the videos together, but we managed it. We released the stories in the run up to Christmas and the project was called the ThomasTankCollectables 28 days of Christmas, it was essentially a TTC Christmas calender!  

It was certainly worth the effort, the videos gained a combined: 

25,545 views

179 likes

A big thank you to everyone that watched and liked the videos; makes all the effort worthwhile! Our next video will be a new cassette collection video, as the last one was done in 2012 and things have changed since then. So keep an eye on our channel for that video. In the meantime please enjoy our latest videos and of course the Ladybird Audio Collection. 

The Complete Ladybird Collection

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Ladybird Audios

Ladybird Audios

Yes you heard us right, we are going to release all of the Ladybird Audios on our Youtube channel! From tomorrow up until Christmas day all 28 of the Ladybird recordings will be released for you to listen to!

With thanks to RailwayStories1 for the original picture.

As I am sure many of you will be aware in the 1980's Ladybird released a set of books with cassettes, all of these original Ringo Starr recordings will be available for you to listen to at your leisure on our Youtube channel. Get the book and press play, we are taking a trip into nostalgia. 

Keep up to date with the latest releases via our Facebook and Twitter pages!

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Meccano Percy Advertisement

Meccano Percy Advertisement

Last year we proved that, contrary to popular belief, the Meccano Percy was released two years earlier than it was once thought; in 1965. We managed to prove this with, amongst other things, a cut out from the 1965 Meccano Magazine. Now we have discovered another advertisement for this set. 

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This leaflet, shown below, would have been given out free around the time of 1965. Although it is undated the packaging of the set would suggest that it is from 1965, as this was also visible on the Meccano Magazine cut out shown last year. Also depicted on this leaflet is the Play-Doh "Fun Factory"! Please take a good look at the leaflet, note that Percy doesn't have a number on the first page. 

ThomasTankCollectables Archives 2013

ThomasTankCollectables Archives 2013

Thanks for reading, please feel free to leave a comment or start a conversation in the chat. 

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King of the Railway

King of the Railway

The waiting has come to an end for many, however there are still many fans who have not yet had the chance to see King of the Railway. The film has been in UK VUE cinemas since the 21st of August and its final screening will be tomorrow. In England the DVD will be available 2nd September, but the US will have to wait a further 15 days for the DVD and Australia won't receive it until 2nd October! So we need to make sure we don't spoil the film for others.

Already Thomas fans have been brimming with excitement over the film and some have even seen it twice! It seems that over the last year Thomas has certainly taken a big leap in the right direction; moving away from repetitive rhyming and poor plot lines.We get to learn some history about the Island, find the significance behind Hiro and meet some old characters in full CGI.

Blue Mountain Mystery was highly successful with fans last year and much like this year it was a significant special. Blue Mountain Mystery's significance was the fact that it was the last film to be made by Nitrogen Studios, the last to be narrated by Michael Angelis, the last to be written by Sharon Miller and first to be edited by Andrew Brenner. This years special is significant for its firsts! First to be narrated by Michael Moroghan, first to be animated by Arc and first to be written by Andrew Brennar.

If you haven't already make sure you read the Roll Along Thomas Spoiler Free Review.