Ivor The Engine

I can't believe this is still around - and I can't watch it! Gosh, Ivor The Engine after all these years, brought back for another generation of kids to enjoy. If I remember correctly this was a Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate production, an endearing little 5 or 10 minute tale of a little locomotive in the Welsh valleys, complete with lyrically intoned narration. Oh what memories. Ivor was a little Welsh Railway engine whose ambition was to sing in the choir like Evans the Song. See, you already think "ah, what a poor little loco, he wants to sing in the choir". His Engine Driver was Jones the Steam and he was fired by a dragon, who lived in his boiler, ...  Read the complete review

"...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..." So began, in 1959, the first episode of the first series of a set of television films which were to become part of the mainstream of Children's television for the next thirty ...  Read the complete review

I can't believe this is still around ! Gosh, Ivor The Engine after all these years, brought back for another generation of kids to enjoy. When I was a kid, I loved this show. I was just so chuffed to see it back again, it's one of those wonderful little memories from when I such a LITTLE girl. Ivor was a little Welsh Railway engine whose ambition was to sing in the choir like Evans the Song. See, you already think "ah, what a poor little loco, he wants to sing in the choir". His Engine Driver was Jones the Steam and he was fired by a dragon, who lived in his boiler, named Idris. It was all very fanciful but such a lovely tale. Innocent ...  Read the complete review

"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 so it all began in 1959 when Ivor The Engine and his driver Jones the Steam appeared on our screens for the first time in black and white. This may come as a surprise to all of you who ...  Read the complete review