Thomas and the Magic Railroad (1997)/ International Releases

Despite the film not being released in the US and/or the UK, Thomas and the Rainbow Railway/Thomas and the Magic Railroad had some international releases, mostly in Europe and Latin America.

Albania
This film was released in cinemas for a limited time with Albanian subtitles. It aired on Bang Bang and Cufo with an Albanian dub in 2010.

Arab World/Middle East/Arabia
This film was released in cinemas for a limited time with Arabic subtitles, but it aired on TV with two Arabic dubs. The first dub was Islamic based and aired on various Arabic channels, and was made in 1998. The second dub was made by Venus Centre for it's airing on Spacetoon. The second dub was made in 2000, but it aired in the summer of 2001.

Australia and New Zealand
This film got a limited screening in cinemas in the morning and on ABC and TVNZ late at night in the summer of 1997. The film's trailer aired on the same channels during an upcoming movie newscast in the summer of 1996. Later on, from 2001-2007, WIN aired this film once a month.

Bulgaria
This film was released on VHS with a Bulgarian dub. This dub was made and released in 1999. It is now out of print.

Brazil
This film was released for a limited time in cinemas with a Brazillian Portuguese dub. Another Brazillian Portuguese dub was made in 1999 for airing on Discovery Kids.

Belgium
This film aired on Fox Kids Vlaanderen with a Flemish dub in 1999. The film's trailer aired on TMF Vlaanderen during an upcoming movie newscast in 1996, also with a Flemish dub.

Czech
This film was released on VHS with a Czech voiceover translation. It later aired on TV Nova with a Czech dub.

Corotia
This film got released on VHS in 1997 with a Corotian voiceover translation. This VHS is now out of print. It later on aired on RTL 2 in 2004 with a Corotian dub.

China
This film aired on Celestrial Movies Asia with a bilingual option of English or Chinese. The movie's trailer aired during CCTV's upcoming movie newscast in 1996, but was left in English with Chinese subtitles.

Canada
This film got released in cinemas for a very brief limited release in the summer of 1997. It later on aired only once on Treehouse TV in the spring of 2000.

Denmark
This film got a limited promotinal VHS release in the summer of 1998 with a Danish dub. Although, it never got an official release in Denmark.

Estonia
This film never got an official release in Estonia, but the film's trailer aired on Kanal 2 during it's upcoming movie newscast in 1996.

Finland
This film aired on Fox Kids in 2002 with a Finnish dub. The film's trailer aired on YLE 1 during an upcoming movie newscast in the summer of 1996.

France
It never got an official release in France, but the film's trailer aired on France 3 during commercial breaks on it's kids' block with a French dub and on an upcoming movie newscast in the summer of 1996 with French subtitles.

Germany
This film was released on VHS with a German dub in 1997. The film's VHS had a behind the scenes featurette with no narration and German subtitles after the movie. The VHS is extremely rare and hard to find now.

India
This film aired on Hungama TV in the summer of 2005 with a Hindi, Tamil, and Telegu dub. The film's trailer aired during commercial breaks on Sony TV in the summer of 1996 with Hindi, Tamil, Telegu, and English subtitles. It later on aired on Disney Channel India in 2012 in English, Hindi, Tamil, and Telegu.

Israel
It didn't get an official release in Israel, but the trailer of this film and a behind the scenes featurette aired on various channels with Hebrew subtitles, but the trailer was dubbed in Hebrew when it aired on kids' channels/blocks during commercial breaks in the summer of 1996.

Italy
This film got dubbed into Italian three times. The first dub aired on Rai Due in 1999. The second dub aired on Italia 1 and on Fox Kids in 1999. The third dub aired on Rai Gulp in 2007. Massimiliano Plinio, the voice of Thomas and Mr. Conductor Jr, participated in all three dubs of this film.

Japan
This film got a limited cinema release in Japan with a Japanese dub. The film's trailer aired on TV Asahi, Fuji TV, NHK, and Nippon TV during an upcoming movie newscast in the summer of 1996 with Japanese subtitles. A promotional trailer with Japanese subtitles got released on Japanese cartoon VHS tapes in the summer of 1996, also with Japanese subtitles.

Korea
This film never got an official release in Korea, but the film's trailer got released on various Korean cartoon VHS tapes from the summer of 1996 with Korean subtitles.

Latin America
This film first had a very limited cinematic release in English with Spanish subtitles. Then, it got two Latin American Spanish dubs. The first one in 1999 for airing on Discovery Kids. The second one produced in 2006 for airing on Boomerang Latin America, when it was a Latin American version of POGO, even though this film didn't air on POGO itself. It was also released on VHS and DVD for a very limited time. They are now out of stock, so good luck finding them.

Malta
This film got released on VHS with a Maltain dub in 1998.

Netherlands
This film aired on Fox Kids Netherlands in the summer of 2000 to celebrate the release of the 2000 film of the same name. It aired with a Dutch dub.

Nepal
This film never got an official release in Nepal, but the film's trailer aired on NTV during an upcoming movie news broadcast in the summer of 1996 with English audio and Nepali subtitles.

Pakistan
This film aired on PTV in 1999 with a bilingual option in English or Urdu.

Poland
This film aired on Fox Kids with a Polish dub. The film's trailer aired on TVP and Polsat during an upcoming film newscast in the summer of 1996.

Romania
This film aired on Fox Kids Romania in the winter of 2004 with a Romanian dub.

Switzerland
SRT1 has aired the film at midnight with a trilingual option of French, German, or Romansch. The film aired in a loop for 24 hours after midnight.

Sweden
This film never got an official release in Sweden, but a Swedish dub was produced and released on a promotional VHS.

Spain and Portugal
LUK International S.A has made European Spanish, European Portuguese, Catalan, Basque, Occitan, Galician, Baleric, Valencian, and Iberian dubs for this film for its release on VHS and DVD, but it never got released at all, so good luck finding the Spain dubs of this film. The dubs are all made in the summer of 1997. The film's trailer aired on various Spanish and Portuguese channels during commercial breaks and upcoming movie newscasts in the summer of 1996, both dubbed and subbed in Spanish and Portuguese.

Taiwan
This film never had an official release in Taiwan, but the Taiwanese feed of the Japanese video company Shogakukan Video produced and released three promotional trailers of this film for their children's anime and cartoon releases on VHS from summer 1996-spring 1997, like Doraemon, Pokemon, Crayon Shin-Chan, Super Mario-kun, etc. The VHS tapes are very rare and hard to find, so good luck trying to find those three promotional trailers of Thomas and the Rainbow Railway. The trailers have English audio with Chinese subtitles. The promotional trailers also were released on Pony Canyon children's cartoon and anime VHS releases and Thomas the Tank Engine VHS releases from summer 1996-spring 1997 in Japan with Japanese subtitles.