Henrietta

Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000)

Calling All Engines! (2005)

The Great Discovery (2008)

Hero of the Rails (2009)

Misty Island Rescue (2010)

Day of the Diesels (2011)

Blue Mountain Mystery (2012)

King of the Railway (2013)

Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure (2015)

The Great Race (2016)

Journey Beyond Sodor (2017)

Big World! Big Adventures! (2018)

Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go! (2021)

### Family

Toby Dawes (husband, in the fanfic), Hannah and Irene Watson (sisters, in the fanfic), unnamed brothers-in-law (deceased)

### Friends

Thomas, Percy, James, Gordon, Edward, Henry, Emily, Rebecca, Nia, Sir Topham Hatt, Duck, Bill and Ben, Timothy, Rosie, Stanley, Ryan, Sonny, Diesel, Daisy, Salty, Porter, Paxton, Sidney, Philip, Victor, Skarloey and Rheneas, Whiff, Marion, Skiff, Hiro, Kenji, Mavis, Annie and Clarabel, Charlie, Billy, Terence, Bertie, Bulgy, Cleo, Ruth, Donald and Douglas, Cranky, Carly, Judy and Jerome, Elizabeth, George, Peter Sam, Sir Handel, Mighty Mac, Duncan, Freddie, Duke, Owen, Merrick, Harvey, Millie, Luke, Stephen, Glynn, Shane, Aubrey and Aiden, Tamika, Ace. Isla, Spencer, Hugo, Rocky, Harold, Flynn, Captain, Butch, Belle, Nelson, Jack, Alfie, Oliver, Max and Monty, Kelly, Byron, Ned, Isobelle, Patrick, Brenda, Buster, Darcy, Kevin, Oliver, Ashima, Rajiv, Noor Jehan, Shankar, Charubala, Lorenzo, Beppe, Gina, Stefano, Ester, Gabriela, Gustavo, Raul, Marcia and Marcio, Fernando, Hank, Sam, Gator, Norman and Dennis, Hong-Mei, Yong Bao, An-An and Yin-Long, Den, Dart, Beau, Toad, Duchess, Lexi, Theo, Hurricane, Merlin, Frankie, Beresford, Caitlin, Connor, Ferdinand, Bash and Dash, Emerson, Lei, Natalie, Cassia, 'Arry and Bert, Bert, Rex, Mike**All Engines Go!:** Kana, Sandy

**Fanfic:** Ten Cents, Sunshine, Theodore, Emily, Hercules, Big Mac, Warrior, Grampus, O.J., Top Hat, Big Mickey, Sally, Boomer, Frank and Eddie, Oliver, Foduck, The Dispatcher, Izzy Gomez, Captain Star, Captain Zero, Zak, Zorran, Zebedee, Zip, Zug, Mighty Mo, Lucy, Phillip and Filmore, Hank, George

### Likes

Toby, her sister Hannah, calling her sister "Hasty Hannah", the engines told rumour about Toby was getting scrapped

## Character's Bio

### Full name

Henrietta Watson-Dawes (fanfic, as a human)

## Physical Apearance

### Species

Tram coach (books and cartoon)Human (fanfic)

### Eye Colour

Black (books and cartoon)Blue-green (fanfic, as a human)

### Complexion

Red-brown with a white rooftop (RWS)Burnt orange with a grey rooftop (RWS)

Persimmon with grey rooftop (T&F)

Pale (fanfic, as a human)

### Status

Alive

**Henrietta** is one of *Thomas & Friends* and *The Railway Series* characters. She was 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

### *The Railway Series*

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 tankers 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 transport quarry workers to and from Ffarquhar 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 riding on the balconies of coaches. 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".

### *Thomas & Friends*

One Christmas/Thanksgiving, the villagers from Ulfstead loaded Henrietta up with paint pots and presents to give to the engines as a token of gratitude for their hard work in the snow. During a snowstorm, Henrietta allowed Farmer McColl's sheep and newly-born lambs to warm up inside her cabin until the snow thawed. Sometime afterwards, Toby and Henrietta attended the Great Waterton tram parade, alongside Flora and her tram coach.

Henrietta helped Toby get over his fear of Knapford junction. Thomas was sent to pull Henrietta (unseen) when Samson accidentally took the Express coaches by mistake, because Gordon had to take Thomas' coaches, Annie and Clarabel.

Henrietta advised Toby to go to the Steamworks to repair his wobbly side plates and also told him to fill up with coal on his way to Wellsworth Scrap Yard, which he did not. She later heard Paxton talking to Emily about Toby being scrapped and knew that it was nonsense. Emily took Henrietta to Wellsworth Scrap Yard where they found Toby safe, but out of coal.

Henrietta had to get her seats refurbished at the Steamworks. After Toby took Henrietta to the Steamworks, he was given a replacement coach named Hannah. After Henrietta had her new seats fitted, Toby took Hannah to the Steamworks to be repaired, where Henrietta reunited with Hannah and revealed to Toby that they were sisters. Afterwards, she began working with Toby once again.

## 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 transports 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 a Great Eastern Railway (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.

Hannah is also based on this coach.

## Physical Appearance

### Livery

In *The Railway Series*, Henrietta was originally painted red-brown with a white rooftop. Her buffer beams were painted red with silver buffers. When she became part of the North Western Railway, she was painted burnt orange with a grey rooftop. Her buffer beams and buffers are painted dark grey.

In the television series, Henrietta is painted persimmon with grey rooftop. Her buffer beams are painted red with black.

### Fanfic

As a human, Henrietta's skin tone was pale in colour, she has gray hair tied in a bun, blue-green eyes and wrinkled face. She wears a persimmon sweater blazer, white shirt with a big silver button with a circle-shaped jasper crystal in the middle, brown skirt, beige tights and brown shoes.

## Fanfics

The Secret & Dearest Life of Everything in Sodor

Henrietta appears as a human in the fanfic, she married to her husband Toby and they're both working on Ffarquhar Branch Line as the tram driver and the coach woman. Meanwhile, they saw Percy worked here driving his engine and pulling the two coaches with the two coach women Annie and Clarabel inside for Thomas when he was seriously ill of being an asthmatic and had a heavy fever.