If you'd like to take part, please head on over to our Discord server for the full info and rules!

discord.gg/R3U2Nj6FdN

We hope to see you there 😃🚂✏️

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In this art collab you can choose which RWS book you'd like to illustrate! and...

You can also choose to illustrate from ANY of the complementary RWS materials! 😀

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🎉 Announcing THE RAILWAY SERIES: EXTENDED SERVICE ART COLLAB! 🎉

Once again it's time to prepare for our annual RWS art collab. It begins now and you have until APRIL 15TH to create your art! However, this year there are two major differences...

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My submission for @thearttrain.bsky.social Fall 2025 collab.

"Scrambled Eggs" if adapted for Season 5.

YouTube video by The Art Train The Railway Series 80th Anniversary Art Collab!

When the collab is over as always all entries will be compiled into a video slideshow! youtu.be/lnzcRrldQaU?fe…

We hope you all enjoy this collab once again 😁

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to DM or ask any member of the team!

And most importantly have fun!

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DEADLINE
- The final deadline for all finished entries will be NOVEMBER 20TH. We will compile all finished entries into a video slideshow to be released on Christmas day December 25th🎄

- Please only enter if you think you can finish an entry by that Nov. 20th!

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- Absolutely NO edits, tracing or A.I. generated images!

- Please do NOT post your entries publicly before October 9th!

- When posting your entry, please add #TAFcollab2025 so we can find you!

You will be given two strikes and then a ban if you breech these rules!

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- A book will be ASSIGNED to you, you only need to choose the story from it!

- An RWS story is limited to 10 people, choose another story if there are a story like Super Rescue is maxed out!

- YOU CAN MAKE MULTIPLE ENTRIES!

- We are only allowing 2D art for this collab.

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RULES

- Your task is to creatively combine an RWS story with a TVS season or movie as previously stated.

- You cannot choose an RWS story that has already been adapted‼️‼️
An example is you can adapt Hullo Twins/Missing Coach, but cannot adapt Break Van/Deputation.

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OUTLINE

This year, your task is to creatively combine the stories from an assigned TVS season or movie, to an RWS story of YOUR OWN choosing!!

This is so to honour the 80th anniversary of the Railway Series even more! Rule here or in our Discord!

discord.gg/A8k4mJ9n

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The 2025 80th anniversary isn’t done yet! The time for our annual TV Series collab is just down the hill and round the bends! It’s time to celebrate Thomas the tank engine and his Friends‼️🚂‼️

This time with a TWIST!!!!

If you would like to join and please read on!

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YouTube video by The Art Train The Railway Series 80th Anniversary Art Collab!

We finally have it! The 80th anniversary collab’s video is now out! Go and watch all who contributed with their amazing artwork! With a little extra surprise at the beginning and end;D

youtu.be/lnzcRrldQaU?...

I got no caption so here’s the twins not understanding the concept of Diesels

#rws80thcollab #RWS80th #thomasthetankengine

Happy 80th Anniversary to The Railway Series, everyone! :)

To honour this, here’s my two entries I made for the #RWS80thCollab!

1) Book 11 - Percy the Small Engine, Percy and Harold.
2) Book 7 - Toby the Tram Engine, Thomas in Trouble.

Also. I have a 2 arts for #rws80thcollab entries

Left image is illustration from "Enterprising Engines"
Right image is illustration from "Thomas The Tank Engine"

Here’s my entry for the #RWS80thCollab

I was assigned book No. 4 Tank Engine Thomas Again

Seems Thomas had found himself in a spot of bother in the snow!

#RailwaySeries #RWS80

HAPPY 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RWS
As per usual, i participated to the #RWS80thCollab ! :D
This year, i did book 6, "Henry the Green Engine"!! AND as bonus i choose, of course, book 15, "The Twin Engines"!

Illustration of the Railway Series book, number 31, Gordon the High-Speed Engine, for the Railway Series collaboration, hosted to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the series.

my entry for #RWS80thCollab!!!
(The Railway Series #31: Gordon the High-Speed Engine - All stories)

Happy 80th Anniversary!!! :DD

#cerenemuxse #art #therailwayseries #rws #ttte #tttefanart #digitalart #krita #illustration

"Gordon the High Speed Engine"

#RWS80thCollab #ThomasandFriends @thearttrain.bsky.social

"I didn't push him over," she cried in alarm. Her driver laughed and jumped down. "No one's blaming you," he said, "but I hope the lorry driver is all right." The lorry's right-hand door was dcep in the ditch, but now a figure could be seen struggling to climb out at the other side. Mavis's driver went to help. "Is that a train?" the man demanded. "It certainly is," laughed Mavis's driver. "You must be new here, not to have seen us before."

My entries for @kumatajdg.bsky.social and @thearttrain.bsky.social #RWS80thCollab
Book 32 - Toby, Trucks and Trouble.

1. Mavis and the Lorry.
Click ALT for extra context from the story.

Look for the rest below 👇.

I did not have much time for the #RWS80thCollab sadly, so I was only able to do drawings; so why not all four stories from Book 7: Toby the Tram Engine!:D

Happy 80th everyone!! No video sadly, but here's my submission for the #RWS80thCollab

Book 13: Duck and the Diesel Engine, Dirty Work:

"Duck called me a 'galloping sausage', "...rusty red scrap iron," "I'm old square wheels"

“The fat controler paced the platform. Henry with a special train waited anxiously too. They heard peep peep! Then battered, weary but unbeated. Edward steamed in.
Book #22- Main line engines
Happy 80th aniversary to the best childrens book in the world that shaped me into who i am.
#RWS80thCollab

Here is My #RWS80thCollab
This was alot of fun to make

Bookstory:Toby The Tram Engine

Thank You for seeing this :]

My entries for #RWS80thCollab
Books : Duck & The Diesel Engine and Oliver The Western Engine
Stories : A Close Shave and Toad Stands By
Here's to 80 years of The Railway Series!

all four of my entries for the #rws80thcollab !!! three from twin engines and one from little old engines :) had a lot of fun drawing these! #ttte #tttefanart
HAPPY 80TH ANNIVERSARY!!!!

Happy 80th Anniversary to the RWS! Here's my entries for #RWS80thCollab from a book which turns 30 this year, also published as an anniversary milestone: Thomas and the Fat Controller's Engines!

Bonus illustration below!

#ttte #tttefanart #rws #railwayseries #thomasthetankengine #thomasandfriends

Thomas takes on water at Elsbridge station. James is on the opposite line, rattling through with a goods train.

Here's my entry for the #RWS80thCollab! I was assigned Book 4 - Tank Engine Thomas Again, and so I decided to illustrate the passage of text that mentions James on Thomas' Branch line during Thomas' race with Bertie.

#RWS80 #TheRailwaySeries

#RWS80thCollab

Book 15 - The Twin Engines
It really was a ton of fun drawing my boy Dougie in both of these entries! :D
Happy 80th anniversary to the franchise, and thank you for seeing this if you do. 😄🖤🚂

Duck Takes Charge by KumataJDG "Beg pardon, Sir, but I'm a Great Western Engine. We do our work without Fuss; but we are not ordered about by other engines. You, Sir, are our Controller. We will of course move if you order us; but, begging your pardon, Sir, Percy and I would be glad if you would inform these - er- engines, that we only take orders from you." - Percy the Small Engine, 1956 The Railway Series RWS fanart illustration art collab 80th anniversary nostalgia Awdry Thomas the Tank Engine steam locomotive train Duck Gordon Henry Fat Controller British Railways GWR Tidmouth

Happy 80th anniversary to the Railway Series!
Here's my entry for our #RWS80thCollab to celebrate; I was assigned RWS book #11, Percy the Small Engine.

I thought it would be fun to depict Duck in the BR black livery he canonically arrived in 😁

#TheRailwaySeries #RWS80