Shows like thomas the tank engine & friends

Thomas & Friends (originally known as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends or simply Thomas the Tank Engine until series 7; later called Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures!) is a British children's television series created by the Reverend W. Awdry and Britt Allcroft that premiered on ITV on 9 October 1984, and concluded its run on Channel 5 on 20 January 2021. Based on The Railway Series also by the Reverend W. Awdry and later his son Christopher, it follows the adventures of Thomas, an anthropomorphised tank engine, on the fictional North Western Railway, on the fictional Island of Sodor with fellow engines Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, Toby, and several other anthropomorphised vehicles, who work for the Fat Controller. Thomas usually gets into trouble by doing jobs best left to bigger and more sensible engines, but never gives up on being a "Really Useful Engine".