Series 23

The twenty-third season of Thomas & Friends,  will be released in 2019 on Milkshake!, Nick Jr., ABC Kids and Treehouse.

Production
Season 23 will be the second series of ''Thomas and Friends: Big World! Big Adventures!''. The series will once again see Thomas journeying around the world and back home on Sodor with his friends James, Percy, Nia, Gordon, Rebecca and Emily.

Characters
Edward, Henry, Toby, Lei, Jack, Alfie, Oliver (The Pack), Max and Monty, Gina, Hong-Mei, The Chinese Diesel, An An and Yin-Long, Ace, Isla, Tamika, Rajiv, Shankar, Noor Jehan and Charubala are likely to appear.
 * Thomas
 * Gordon
 * James
 * Percy
 * Emily
 * Nia
 * Rebecca
 * Ashima
 * Shane
 * Yong Bao
 * Annie and Clarabel
 * Aubrey and Aiden
 * Sir Topham Hatt

Characters Introduced

 * Lorenzo
 * Pepe

UK AUS and NZ

 * John Hasler as Thomas
 * Keith Wickham as Gordon and Sir Topham Hatt
 * Rob Rackstraw as James
 * Nigel Pilkington as Percy
 * Teresa Gallagher as Emily, Annie and Clarabel
 * Yvonne Grundy as Nia
 * Rachael Miller as Rebecca
 * Tina Desai as Ashima
 * Shane Jacobson as Shane
 * Dan Li as Yong Bao
 * Genevieve McCarthy as Aubrey
 * Tim Bain as Aiden

US and CAN

 * Joseph May as Thomas
 * Kerry Shale as Gordon
 * Rob Rackstraw as James
 * Christopher Ragland as Percy
 * Jules de Jongh as Emily
 * Yvonne Grundy as Nia
 * Rachael Miller as Rebecca
 * Tina Desai as Ashima
 * Shane Jacobson as Shane
 * Dan Li as Yong Bao
 * Teresa Gallagher as Annie and Clarabel
 * Genevieve McCarthy as Aubrey
 * Tim Bain as Aiden
 * Keith Wickham as Sir Topham Hatt

Episodes

 * Laid Back Shane
 * Wish You Were Here
 * Gina's Christmas Party Special
 * Lorenzo and Pepe
 * Free and Easy (Ace the Racer Episode)
 * Going to India
 * Post Early for Christmas
 * The New Excavator
 * Merlin Disappears
 * Returning the Favour (follow up story to Emily in the Middle)
 * Rosie's Red Revamp (Cancelled Season 21 Episode on How Rosie was repainted)
 * No Time for Bulgy (Cancelled Season 21 Episode Focused on Bulgy)
 * Fame and Fortune (Cancelled Season 21 Flying Scotsman Episode)
 * Hugo and the Railcar (Cancelled Season 21 Hugo Episode)
 * Super Rescue
 * The Earl's Railway Museum (Cancelled Season 21 Episode)
 * Mike's New Whistle (Cancelled Season 21 Arlesdale Railway Episode)
 * Henry's Choice
 * Skiff's Windy Day
 * Little Old Twins
 * Clever Trevor
 * Oliver Gets the Bird
 * Bertie the Snow Bus
 * Gordon Goes Foreign
 * Stepney and Rebecca
 * The Brazil Games

Trivia

 * This is the first season since the sixteenth season to contain 20 episodes.
 * This is the last season to have Andrew Brenner as head writer.