Series

Ivor The Engine

★ 8.3(3)19595 seasons

Ivor The Engine is available to rent or buy on Apple TV Store in Australia. It isn't on a subscription streaming service there yet. Availability checked 11 June 2026.

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Creator: Oliver Postgate, Peter Firmin
Release date: 1959-12-28
Language: English
Seasons: 5
Episodes: 72
Network: BBC Television, Rediffusion London
Status: Ended
Country: United Kingdom
Studio: Smallfilms

Ivor The Engine — trailer

About Ivor The Engine

Ivor The Engine is a 1959 web series in the Animation and Kids genres, created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, starring Oliver Postgate, Anthony Jackson and Olwen Griffiths. It spans 5 seasons and 72 episodes, and originally aired on BBC Television and Rediffusion London. It holds an average rating of 8.3/10 from 3 viewers. Below you can see where to watch Ivor The Engine in Australia — across streaming, rental and purchase options — along with the full cast, trailer and viewer reviews.

Synopsis

...Not very long ago, in the top left-hand corner of Wales, there was a railway. It wasn't a very long railway or a very important railway, but it was called The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, and it was all there was. And in a shed, in a siding at the end of the railway, lives the Locomotive of the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, which was a long name for a little engine so his friends just called him Ivor..." ...And that was how it began, back in 1959: one of Oliver Postgate's most loved creations, Ivor the Engine. It was a series about the Welsh adventures of a little green railway engine and his many friends. But Ivor wasn't an ordinary steam engine. He pretty much wished he was a person and ended up doing things like singing in a choir and swimming in the sea! One season of six, 10 minute, Black and White films was made for and screened by Associated-Red.