RIP Oliver Postgate 1925-2008 - creator of Ivor the Engine
Ivor the Engine lives on The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, in the top left-hand corner of Wales On its map are viaducts, bridges, tunnels, towns, villages, coalmine and gasworks. Ivor gets to Grumbly Town by passing through Tan-y-Gwlch.
The story is delightfully absurd - Ivor wants to sing in the choir - but like all proper absurdities it was taken seriously and the task approached with care and kindliness by the ordinarily extraordinary people of that real imaginary place.
It is not an easy task. Such time-tables as the railway tries to follow have to be adjusted to suit Ivor's choir practice, and in any case there is not much chance of keeping to timetables when there is a dragon called Idris to be kept red-hot.
http://www.smallfilms.co.uk/ivor/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_the_Engine
www.bridgnorthstation.co.uk
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