Season 4 Narrow Gauge Explained
Season 4 Narrow Gauge Explained After public outcry from The Reverend Awdry himself regarding the stories of the third season straying from books on which they were supposed to be based, it was decided the 4th season of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends would take a more conservative approach, choosing to stick closer to Awdry's work. The crew had been having trouble finding suitable stories to adapt into episodes dating back to the second season, when Britt Allcroft commissioned Christopher Awdry to write "Even more about Thomas the Tank Engine" for the sake of future television adaptions. The third season had simply made up it's own material to work around this, but this caused controversy. Season 4 found the solution to this issue with the introduction of the narrow gauge engines. This opened up a wealth of new stories previously off limits that could now be brought to the small screen without deviating to much from Awdry's material. Althought that