- After seeing Judy and Alfred, the engines Bill and Ben are based on, Christopher decided to write Thomas and the Twins.
- Christopher broke two known Railway Series Golden Rules in his books:
- The books were meant to have engine/s in the title
- The mainland engines were not meant to have faces.
- Gordon and the High Speed Engine allowed Christopher to retire from his job at Inland Revenue and write full time.
- Christopher states that James and the Diesel Engines was the most difficult to write. The book also showed the Mainland Diesels in good light.
- Christopher finds that Brendam Docks in the Television Series is far to large for an island like Sodor.
- When Wilbert got the idea for Toby the Tram Engine from an ex-Great Eastern Railway tram, Christopher realised for the first time how much work goes into making stories and charecters.
- Christopher finds that Clive Spong, his railway series illustrator, is superb and he commends his work
- Earlier this year, Christopher started a petition with Sodor Island Fansite to have the original themes put on a CD.
- Richard Awdry, his son, gave Really Useful Engines it's first review. Christopher says that his son "really enjoyed it."
- In Thomas and the Great Railway Show, there is a story called Trouble on the Line in which Thomas runs over a lunch pack and the crowd learns engines can't stop at once. This story was meant to have a bigger railway safety message by the National Railway Museum wouldn't allow it. Christopher has said it would have given the Museum Crowd Control a bad look.
- In Thomas and Victoria, Victoria states that she was pulled by Albert and worked with another coach called Helena. This is a direct reference to Queen Victoria's husband and daughter.
- The book Thomas and the Fat Controller's Engines was originally called The Fat Controller's Engines, but publishers wanted Thomas' name in the title. This caused a lot of controversy as it implied Thomas wasn't owned by Sir Topham Hatt. However, the publishers meant for it to be a sales tactic.
- "Thomas and Victoria" was Christopher Awdry`s first Railway Series book since 1996.
- At one point, the British Transport Police asked Christopher to publish a book on railway safety to go astray from the "cozy" image he was giving to the Railway Series.
- In Christopher's book "Hugh Goes Sliding", his character's names were plays on their classes. (Hugh comes from Messyrs, Hughs 0-4-2, while Kerr comes from Kerr Stuart 0-4-2)
- Christopher's favorite character from the Railway Series is Toby, because he got to ride in the cab of a LNER J70 (which is also his father's influence for the character) as a child.
- Christopher was influenced to write the story "Triple Header" when a driver on the Nene Valley Railway told him about one of his own experiences.
- Some of Christopher's other books include:
-Railway for Sale
-LOTI and the Enchanted Forest
-LOTI and the Lost Locket
-The Chips Express
-Heave-Ho Hamish
-Hugh Goes Sliding
- Christopher's Eastbourne Series includes the stories:
1. General Takes Charge
2. Racheal and the Goose
3. Western and the Lost Ring
4. Oily Keeps Things Going
5. Eastbourne's Wedding Special
6. Oily and the Flood
- The spin-off books that Christopher wrote were:
Thomas and the Mssing Christmas Tree
Thomas and the Evil Diesel
Thomas and the Hurricane
Sodor: Reading Between the Lines
- The televised stories that Christopher Awdry wrote were: Better Late Than Never, Thomas & Trevor, Thomas & the Missing Christmas Tree, Special Attraction, Fish & Mind That Bike. Four of these were from the Railway Series, and other two from spin-off's.
- There was a book from Christopher Awdry that was canceled. It was entitled Barry The Rescue Engine. It was replaced with Thomas the Fat Controller's Engines to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary.
- Christopher wrote nine "Easy to Read" Thomas books from 1990 to 1998.
- Cristopher Awdry wrote some spin-off episodes that were aired in series 2 of Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends.
The stories were:
Thomas & Trevor
Thomas & the Missing Christmas Tree
- Christopher Awdry adapted Wilbert's story Thomas Comes To Breakfast.
- Christopher Awdry's Railway Series books were:
Really Useful Engine
James and the Diesel Engines
Great Little Engines
More About Thomas The Tank Engine
Gordon, The High-Speed Engine
Toby, Trucks & Trouble
Thomas & the Twins
Jock the New Engine
Thomas & the Great Railway Show
Thomas Comes Home
Henry and the Express
Wilbert the Forest Engine
Thomas and the Fat Controller's Engines
New Little Engine
Thomas and Victoria
- Christopher Awdry appeared in the TV show Stickin' Around.
- Christopher Awdry dedicated the book Wilbert the Forest Engine to his father, Wilbert Awdry.
- Christopher wrote six stories about railway safety for school children in 2001.
- Christopher has his own publishing company called Sodor Enterprises.
- Christopher was responsible for the creation of such characters as Wilbert, Sixteen, Jock, Ivo Hugh, Old Stuck Up, Fred, Frank, Jinty, and Pug.
- Christopher wrote the Thomas the Tank Engine annuals during the eighties and ninties. Some stories explained situations that happened in the Railway Series books.
- The Railway Series was originally three stories told to Christopher while he was sick.
- Christopher took over the Railway Series in 1983, producing 14 books.
- Christopher: Back in May, 1945, when the first of my father's books, The Three Railway Engines, was published, it certainly wouldn't hav occured to my not-quite-yet-five-year-old mind that I would be writing a foreword for a collection of my own stories 60-plus years later.
- Wilbert: Do Kaye and Ward know about these? (Really Useful Engine)
Christopher: Good heavens no, why should they?
- Christopher: Why is he sad Daddy?
Wilbert Awdry: Because he hasn't been out for a long time.
Christopher: What's his name?
Wilbert: Edward!
- Christopher: One of the engines my father created was Duncan. His twin is Douglas, who lives at Twynn, Wales.
