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Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Author	Britt Allcroft
Illustrated by	Tommy Stubbs
Published	June 27, 2000-2001
Publisher(s)	Random House

This article is about the story book. You may be looking for the movie or the activity book.

Thomas and the Magic Railroad is a book based on the feature film of the same name.

PlotEdit

Thomas makes a perilous trip to bring back Lady to restore the Magic Railroad.

In the book, an explosion causes Thomas to topple off of the cliff. This was to be part of the original film until P. T. Boomer was cut.
The book has the original script in four ways:
- Diesel 10 is a new engine on the Island of Sodor.
- Mr. Conductor escapes Diesel 10 by cutting a wire instead of a hydraulic pipe.
- Diesel 10 plans to destroy all of the buffers on Sodor to find the magic ones.
- Thomas is seen going through another part of the magic railroad.

The buffers are illustrated to look like crossing gates.
Junior is illustrated as wearing his conductors hat throughout the book, but in the film he does not receive it until the end.
Patch, Stacy Jones, and Billy Twofeathers are not in the book.
In the twenty-third illustration, Thomas' funnel is missing.
Gordon's funnel is taller than usual in the second illustration.