Henry

**Henry** is a green steam engine who lives on the Island of Sodor. He is part of The Steam Team and is the No.3 on the NWR.

## Bio:

Henry was built in 1919 as stolen plans from a Gresley Pacific design but was built with a small smokebox. 1923: He arrived on the Island of Sodor and then in the 30s he had a crash with the Flying Kipper and got rebuilt into a Stainer Black 5. 2011: He tried to express his love for Gordon while it worked next year he got into a fight with him and broke up for a while than went back together, later that year Madison arrives on Sodor and Henry was told to show her around the Island and then realizes that Madison has feelings for him but told her he was fussy.

## Persona:

Henry is a gentle and shy green engine. He has a deep friendship for Gordon and admires him. He can be fairly irritable from time to time, and his feelings can be hurt fairly easily by someone bullying him like Dennis or someone calling him a big green hippie. He also loves visiting his forest and feels at peace when he is there.

## Appearances:

### The Adventures on Sodor:

#### Season 1:

* A Royal Treat, Henry's Attempt, The Right Way or the Wrong Way \*cameo\*, Diesel Love, A Change for Martha, The Pink Blues, Assembling Feelings, Crank it Cargo \*cameo\*, Steamies Vs Diesels

#### Season 2:

* Next Stop: Castle Fantasies \*does not speak\*, Unauthorised Road Work, The Break Up, What Place is Right for You?, Logs Away, Three's A Crowd, Friends and Fantasies, Road Problems \*cameo\*, Spy Dennis \*cameo\*

### Specials:

* 2020- TAOS: How Diesel Stole Christmas \*does not speak\*
* 2021- TAOS: World War Sodor - An Eagle Story and TAOS: A Cranky Christmas Carol
* 2022- TAOS: The Untold Story of Timothy \*Remastered (cameo)\*and TAOS: Little Engines Save Christmas
* 2023- Demons

### Shorts:

* Christmas Short
* The Complaint Truck

## Technical Details:

### Basis:

Henry's history is unusual. The Fat Controller had intended to buy a Robinson Atlantic of the Great Central Railway, but was swindled and instead received Henry. According to men who worked on Henry pre-rebuild, he had a superficial likeness to Gordon, but the aesthetics were as far as this went. Although Henry's exact origins are difficult to trace, it is generally thought that he was built by an unknown rival locomotive builder to Sir Nigel Gresley, whose spy stole the wrong drawings for Gresley's upcoming A1 pacifics, resulting in Henry.

Henry in this shape developed performance issues from flaws in the design, compounded by his stay in the tunnel. Henry was a bad steamer; with good-quality coal, he could get enough heat to make plenty of steam, but when there was a poor lot delivered, his undersized firebox could not hold enough coal to make a proper fire. On advice from Henry's fireman, the Fat Controller ordered high-grade Welsh coal, which made an appreciable difference in Henry's performance.

When Henry suffered an accident and severe damage in the winter of 1935, the opportunity was taken to send him to Crewe, where he was rebuilt into a London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Stanier 5MT "Black Five" 4-6-0. After "The Eight Famous Engines", Henry's Stanier tender was replaced by a standard Fowler tender.

In the television series, Henry has always had a one-window cab with an LNER-style tender. The differences between his shapes were removed splashers, the Belpaire firebox replacing the tapered, added steam pipes beneath his smokebox, and a top feed. This was done to ease the changeover to his "Black Five"-esque appearance. However, Henry kept his parallel boiler instead of the tapered one that the Black Fives had. He later regained a full set of wheel-arches in Series 2 onwards, making him somewhat a hybrid of the 5MT and the similarly designed LMS Jubilee Class.

### Livery:

Henry is painted in NWR green with red lining on his cab, splashers, tender, cylinders and boiler and yellow lining around his windows. His number (3) is painted on his tender in yellow with a red outline. He has a white running board with red bufferbeams and valences.

For a short period between him leaving the tunnel and the incident with the elephant, Henry was painted in the standard blue livery used by the North Western Railway, with red and yellow lining. He later returned to his original livery to avoid confusion with Gordon.

## Trivia:

* Henry is transgendered, as it was hinted upon in TAOS S2 Ep3 'The Break Up'.