Wilbert Awdry

The Railway Series books

Belinda the (1958) illustrated by Ionicus

Beetle

Belinda Beats the Band (1961) illustrated by

John T. Kenney

W V Awdry & G E V Awdry, , Kaye and Ward, 1986.

The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways

Wilbert Vere Awdry from Dictionary of Literary Biography by M. Margaret Dahlberg, University of North Dakota. 2005–2006 Thomson Gale

(2015). The Thomas the Tank Engine Man: The Life of Reverend W. Awdry (2nd ed.). Lion Books. ISBN 978-0-7459-7027-1.

Sibley, Brian

Rev W Awdry's appearance on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, first broadcast on 16 October 1964

Awdry Family website

at the Wayback Machine (archived 16 February 2006) – contains some information not available on the later site

'Original' Awdry Family website

at the Wayback Machine (archived 22 December 2007) – Formerly www.sodor.co.uk (Dead link discovered April 2010)

Sodor Enterprises (publishing company)

– Biography at the official Awdry Family website

Rev. W. V. Awdry

– Home of the Rev. W. V. Awdry's study

The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales

, from The Independent, written by Brian Sibley

"Obituary: The Rev W. Awdry"

by Trevor Beeson – Note: contains some factual errors.

"Priests and Prelates: The Daily Telegraph Clerical Obituaries" (Entry for Rev. W Awdry)

Archived 21 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine – on which "Priests and Prelates" is based; also contains errors

Daily Telegraph Obituary

David Self (1 February 2008). . Church Times.

"What draws clerics to railways?"