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TIL that Thomas & Friends was not the first television adaption of the Railway Series - in 1953, the BBC commisioned a live adaption of “The Sad Story of Henry” During broadcast, a failure to switch the points caused the model of Henry to derail and a human hand to reach out and re-attach it.

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