To celebrate the release of Ivor the Engine: The Complete Collection on DVD and Blu-ray from 20th November, we’re giving away a Blu-Ray Complete Collection! The end of the 1950s found Oliver Postgate ...

...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 ...

In April 2005 the BBC's Cult website spoke to Oliver Postgate about his creations. In this extract he discusses the magic of Ivor The Engine. Was there a philosophy behind the way you made programmes?

"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 ...

With his gentle peep-peep and distinctive puffing sounds, Ivor the Engine was a firm favourite with a whole generation of 1970s schoolchildren. Now the son of co-creator Oliver Postgate is planning to ...

He was the cheeky cartoon steam engine that sang in his local choir, went out on his own and provokes nostalgic memories of an innocent childhood. Now 60 years since Ivor the Engine first steamed onto ...

Entertainers Eddie Izzard, Cerys Matthews, Rhys Ifans and Rob Brydon have lent their voices to cult cartoon Ivor the Engine for its first production in more than 40 years. The stars helped work on the ...

It was one of the most beloved cultural touchstones for kids growing up in Wales in the 1970s. A gentle animation series about a train driver and his steam engine, Ivor The Engine saw an entire ...

Hit 70s children's TV show Ivor the Engine is being turned into a live-action feature film. The Welsh steam train became a family favourite throughout the 1970s, with a charity audiobook set to be ...