13-year-old Harry Sparkes was cast as the new voice of Thomas the Tank Engine.
According to BBC Entertainment & Arts, 13-year-old Harry Sparkes from Harpenden, Hertfordshire, has made his voice-acting debut as Thomas the Tank Engine in Thomas & Friends: Railway Stories, alongside narrator Henry Golding. The series will launch on YouTube with a special episode before premiering on Milkshake! in October, and Sparkes kept his recording sessions secret from his school for nine months.