 However, in February 2007, unofficial reports from the publishers, Egmont, suggested that there were plans to put the whole series back into print, in the original format, and that a new Christopher Awdry book (called "Thomas and Victoria") was expected to be published later in 2007.This book, number 41 in the series, was published in September 2007, being the first Railway Series book to be published in 11 years.Number 42 in the series, called "Thomas and his Friends", was published in June 2011.