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The Shining Time Station is a fictional train station on the Indian Valley Railroad in an unknown part of the United States. It is managed by Stacy Jones. Its workshop is run in the first season by Harry Cupper, and thereafter by Billy Twofeathers.
At seemingly a ordinary train station in a small American town, extraordinary things happen including a tiny man called "Mr. Conductor" who tells stories about Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends.
- (763)
- 1989-01-29
- Comedy, Family, Fantasy
- 30
Released. January 29, 1989 - December 18, 1995. Shining Time Station is an American television series best known for introducing Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends to the United States.
Shining Time Station is an American-Canadian children's television series created by Britt Allcroft and Rick Siggelkow. It aired from January 29, 1989 to June 11, 1993. Four specials (otherwise known as the Family Specials) also followed in 1995.
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- IT’S BASED ON A BRITISH SHOW CALLED THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE & FRIENDS. The long-running series first hit UK televisions in 1984, and its 4.5- or 9-minute segments were repackaged with additional material as Shining Time Station for American viewers beginning in 1989.
- THE SERIES IS BASED ON WILBERT AWDRY'S BOOKS, WHICH HE WROTE WHEN HIS SON HAD THE MEASLES. The character prototypes for Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends were born in 1942, when Anglican cleric Wilbert Awdry—better known as Reverend W. Awdry—was entertaining his bedridden son, Christopher, with stories about very special steam trains.
- THE ISLAND OF SODOR AND ITS TRAINS ARE ROOTED IN REAL LIFE. In a 2010 interview with NPR, Christopher Awdry explained that his father’s lifelong fascination with trains brought a lot of reality to the engines of Sodor—and to the fictional island itself.
- RINGO STARR ENJOYED BEING MINUTE AND MAGICAL AS MR. CONDUCTOR. The former Beatle was charmed by the fact that his character, whose scenes were shot separately and superimposed into those with his young co-stars on the American Shining Time Station, was so tiny.
The Shining Time Station Wiki is an online encyclopedia dedicated to the show that introduced Thomas the Tank Engine to America, Shining Time Station. We have more than 754 pages about anything Shining Time Station - including the television series and the family specials.
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Shining Time Station is a 1989 children’s television series that aired on PBS from January 29, 1989 until June 11, 1993. (1995 specials from February 28, 1995 until November 20, 1995) The show was created by Britt Allcroft and Rick Siggelkow. Seventy episodes aired in total.
