Ivor The Engine (1959)
Ivor The Engine (1959)
Plot.
...Not very long ago, in the top left-hand corner of Wales, there was a railway. It wasn't a very long railway or a very important railway, but it was called The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, and it was all there was. And in a shed, in a siding at the end of the railway, lives the Locomotive of the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, which was a long name for a little engine so his friends just called him Ivor..." ...And that was how it began, back in 1959: one of Oliver Postgate's most loved creations, Ivor the Engine. It was a series about the Welsh adventures of a little green railway engine and his many friends. But Ivor wasn't an ordinary steam engine. He pretty much wished he was a person and ended up doing things like singing in a choir and swimming in the sea! One season of six, 10 minute, Black and White films was made for and screened by Associated-Red.
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Cast & Crew.
Oliver Postgate
Narrator / Ivor / Alice the Elephant / Creator
Anthony Jackson
Dai Station / Evans the Song / Mr. Dinwiddy
Olwen Griffiths
Idris the Dragon / Mrs. Griffiths / Mrs. Porty
David Edwards
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Ivor the Engine is a British cutout animation television series created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms company. It follows the adventures of a small green steam locomotive who lives in the "top left-hand corner of Wales" and works for The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited. His friends include Jones the Steam, Evans the Song and Dai Station, among many other characters.
In 2024, to coincide with a reprint of the original book based on the series, Ivor and The Merioneth & Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited were inducted as the 13th (and only fictional) member of the Great Little Trains of Wales.