BBC One

BBC One (or BBC1 and BBC 1) is the first and flagship television channel of the BBC in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution. It used the Marconi-EMI 405-line all-electronic television service and, for the first three months, the Baird 240-line intermediate film system. Germany introduced television with a medium level of image resolution (180 lines) in 1935, initially based on intermediate film, but fully electronic by 1936. It was renamed BBC TV in 1960, using this name until the launch of the second BBC channel BBC2 in 1964, whereupon the BBC TV channel became known as BBC1, with the current spelling adopted in 1997.

The channel aired Thomas and the Magic Railroad on New Year's Day 2004 at 10:55, and nearly a half a decade later aired the film a second time on 29 December 2008 at 10:35 in widescreen.

Trivia

 * Some editions of the children's series "Jackanory" featured Ted Ray reading The Railway Series books up to Duck and the Diesel Engine.
 * Britt Allcroft had pitched ideas for the BBC series "Moon Clue Game" and "Get It - Got It - Good" in the 1960s.
 * The first showing of Thomas and the Magic Railroad was a week before the seventh series began airing on CITV.
 * When Thomas and the Magic Railroad was broadcast on this network, the end credits were reduced to warp speed, skipping all the way from the cast list to the soundtrack listings and ending a quarter way through the song "Locomotion".