Sean, Mick, Harry, Dexter and Randolph

**Sean, Mick, Harry, Dexter and Randolph the Red Coaches** are coaches (Dexter is now a classroom), and are deuteragonists of the SeventyVerse.

## Backstory

Sean, Mick, Harry and Dexter were all built as a set, and often travelled on the main line local. However, when Dexter had more breakdowns than your average coach, a fifth coach was built. This was Randolph.

During Bear and D261 's trial he was on Henry's passenger train when his axle broke, due to Henry being rough with the coaches. D261 came to get him but left him on a siding. For a long time, the other coaches didn't know where he was, and neither did the other engines. They kept thinking he'd show up, but he didn't.

Two years later, Bowler would lie and say he had Dexter scrapped. This severely devastated the remaining four coaches, and they kept going for Dexter's sake. However, in later years, there were rumours that Dexter might have not been scrapped after all.

Several years later, this was proven true when Dexter was found by Duck and was turned into a school.

## Relationships

### Each other

The coaches all love each other very much. That being said, Randolph at first didn't get on with Dexter due to his constant breakdowns. The other three got angry with him, and Randolph eventually came to be protective of Dexter.

### Henry

The red coaches, save for Dexter, were very rude to him after he got stuck in a tunnel and for shy steaming. They have gotten more sympathetic over the years though. Henry felt extremely guilty for Dexter supposedly being killed, and relieved when Dexter was alive.

### Bowler

Bowler shunted Dexter away to a siding and faked him being scrapped. Dexter hated Bowler after realising what he did.

### Duck

The red coaches all felt very grateful when Duck rescued Dexter and brought him to be a classroom.

## Personality

The red coaches are loosely inspired by the Beatles, and their personalities are similar to them. Sean is John Lennon, Mick is Paul McCartney, Harry is George Harrison, Dexter is Ringo Starr, and Randolph is Pete Best. The five of them really like singing songs, too.

## Technical Details

### Basis

Sean, Mick, Harry, Dexter and Randolph are based on LBSC Stroudley Coaches built to a design by Stroudley between the early 1870s and late 80s. Several coaches of this type are preserved on the Bluebell Railway and the Isle of Wight Steam Railway.

Sean, Mick, Harry, Dexter and Randolph also differ from their basis, the Stroudley coaches, with their oil lamp pots, as they have a round base instead of the square base ones that were used on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (L&SCR).

### Liveries

Sean, Mick, Harry and Randolph are painted dark red with dark grey rooftops.

Dexter is painted blue with yellow ends and a red roof. His side is decorated with various drawings, including ones of himself, Duck and Thomas. A tuba filled with roses also lays against him. Before being restored, When he was still in service, Dexter was painted dark red with a black roof, but after being abandoned by Bowler, he was completely soiled with grime and overgrowth.

## Concept and Creation/differences from the TV series

* The red coaches were inspired from not just the Beatles, but from the coaches seen in The Adventure Begins. Thomas pulls some in Thomas' Train (after he left them behind), and Henry left some in the tunnel in The Sad Story of Henry. Railfanbronymedia also speculated what it would be like for Dexter to have several brothers.
* Dexter didn't know Duck in *School of Duck*, while in the SeventyVerse, they do know each other.

## Trivia

* Dexter has a canon voice actor, but the rest of the preferred voice actors are:
	+ Sean - Ian Hart (John Lennon in *Backbeat*)
	+ Mick - Thomas Sangster (Paul McCartney in Nowhere Boy)
	+ Harry - Sam Bell (George Harrison in Nowhere Boy)
	+ Randolph - Scot Williams (Pete Best in Backbeat)