Henrietta

**Henrietta** is a coach that travels with Toby, Victoria and Elsie. Percy or Daisy usually take her when Toby is absent. Thomas and Emily have also pulled her.

## Biography

Henrietta worked with Toby on their old tramway in East Anglia. She became depressed when buses and lorries took over her work and when their line closed, due to the lack of passengers and freight, Toby could not bear to leave her behind. So Toby brought her with him to the North Western Railway. He mentioned to the Fat Controller that a stationmaster on his tramway wanted to use her as a henhouse, but the Fat Controller agreed that "that would never do".

At first, Toby and Henrietta were teased by James for having shabby paint. However, Toby and Henrietta later received new coats of paint for their hard work and James stopped teasing them after he crashed into some tar wagons and spoiled his own paint. When the engines went to England, she was used as the Fat Controller's "private coach". Later, when Daisy was brought to Sodor, she insulted her along with Annie and Clarabel when Daisy found that she had to share the Carriage Shed with them and Percy and Toby were forced to take them away and stay up half the night trying to cheer them up.

Henrietta is often used to carry quarry workers to and from Anopha Quarry. Once, some workers had to crowd on Henrietta's balcony. However this caused controversy with a policeman, who sent an inspector to inform the quarry manager of a by-law forbidding passengers to be carried on coaches' balconies. This problem was resolved when the Fat Controller restored an old coach named Victoria to help Toby and Henrietta. Together they formed "Toby's Vintage Train".

## Personality

Henrietta is Toby's faithful coach, who likes to be full of passengers and take them on journeys. She does not like to be separated from Toby, although she rarely carries a full load of passengers. Henrietta is quite content with her life on the Island. Toby is attached to Henrietta and always takes her with him, as he says "she might be useful one day".

From the eighteenth series onwards, Henrietta is seen motivating and encouraging Toby when he feels nervous about the capabilities of his work and performance. She also encourages others and gives them good advice.

## Technical Details

### Basis

Henrietta is based on the GER Wisbech and Upwell Tramway 4-wheel coach. From the beginning, the Wisbech & Upwell used its own special passenger stock. Initially, only four wheelers were used, but bogie coaches were introduced in 1884. The coaches had balconies at each end and a drawbridge type gangway between coaches. Each balcony had an emergency hand-brake wheel. The coaches looked squat and low-lying due to the need to handle raised track and the absence of platforms at some of the depots. All the four-wheeled coaches were scrapped by 1948, but the bogie coaches survived into British Railways ownership. One of them, Irene, No.7, has been preserved by the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway Society.

### Livery

Henrietta is painted brown-orange with red buffer beams and a grey roof.

## Appearances

### Season 1

* Daisy the Royal Diesel Rail-Car (cameo)
* Diesel's Christmas Carol (cameo)

### Season 2

* Fibbing Thomas (cameo)
* A Christmas for Diesel (cameo)

### Season 3

* Daisy and the Cows (cameo)
* A Gronk and Bucket Rivalry (cameo)
* Fear (cameo)
* Emily and the Trespasser (cameo)
* Farewell Mrs. Kyndley (cameo)
* Heavy Goods (cameo)
* A Kyndley Christmas

### Season 4

* The Fishy Smell (cameo)
* The Ffarquhar Constable (cameo)
* Hard Work Brings Success (cameo)
* A Christmas Wish (cameo)
* New Year, New Life

### Season 5

* Goodbye Percy (does not speak)
* Who's The Favourite? (cameo)
* Dennis and the Passengers (cameo)
* Ryan (episode) (cameo)
* The Legacy Of Glynn The Coffee Pot Engine (cameo)

### Season 6

* Respect For Toby (cameo)
* Pip and the Trucks (cameo)
* A Christmas Gift for Percy

### Season 7

* No Laughing Matter (cameo)
* Toby's Easter Egg Hunt
* Thomas and Percy's Field Trip (cameo)
* Glynn and the Hill (cameo)

### Season 8

* Cottage for Sale (cameo)
* The Law is the Law!

### Season 9

* Philip's Royal Rescue (cameo)
* Toby and the Cheeky Twins (cameo)
* Lost and Found (cameo)
* The Missing Kippers (cameo)

### Season 12

* Harold the Hero (*cameo*)
* Fowl Train (*cameo*)
* A Cranky New Year! (*music video cameo*)

### Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends

#### Series 2

* Thomas and the Old-Timers (cameo)
* Toby Remembers (cameo)
* Toby's Trial
* Diesels and Dogma (cameo)
* The Bakery Express (cameo)
* Thomas & The Old Oak Tree (cameo)