Audrey, Hilary and Mark

**Audrey, Hilary and Mark the Old Coaches** are some of the deuteragonists of the Seventyverse and are Lauren's coaches. They are based on the Old Coaches that appeared in the first series of the TV show.

## Backstory

Audrey, Hilary and Mark used to work Glynn, Maurice, Leslie and Phyllis back on the Tidmouth, Knapford and Elsbridge Light Railway. However, after the Coffee Pots were withdrawn, the old coaches became rude towards the other engines out of grief. Thanks to Lauren, the coaches apologised to those they had wronged. As a result, they became Lauren's coaches and joined her, Julie and Johnson on the Kirk Ronan branch line. At some point prior to Thomas' arrival, Audrey came out as non-binary.

## Kirk Ronan Crew

### Each other

The old coaches are quite loyal to each other, jumping to one another's defence... even if the others have said something rather unpleasant.

### Lauren

Lauren had a lot of patience when dealing with Audrey, Hilary and Mark's ridiculing and harassment. She was able to get to the bottom of it, and realises they were grieving over the loss of their old Coffee Pot friends. As a reward for her efforts, she got to keep Audrey, Hilary and Mark as her coaches.

### Johnson

Johnson called the old coaches 'glorified livestock wagons' and they in return called him an 'oversized pillar-box'. Suffice to say, the four of them did not get along, and Johnson ended up bumping them off the track.

### Julie

Poor Julie got hit the hardest with the old coaches. They taunted her about the coal mine potentially closing and the railway leaving her abandoned. She was crying so much that Katie decided to take over from her. The old coaches have since become much kinder toward Julie, but she still thinks about that incident.

### Katie

Katie used her more scatter-brained nature against the old coaches when she found out Julie got harsh treatment from them. This drove the old coaches mad. Even now, they don't see eye-to-eye, but the old coaches aren't nearly as rude to her.

### Nicole

Nicole decided to take the softer approach with the old coaches, and they took advantage of this. The later apologised to her for being rude, and are slowly healing things up.

## Personalities

Audrey, Hilary and Mark were rude and would lash out at the engines, but this was because they were grieving the loss of the Coffee Pots. When Lauren got them to open up, the coaches apologised and became a lot nicer after that, although they can still cause grief on the odd occasion.

## Technical Details

### Basis

Audrey, Hilary and Mark are based on the GNR ‘Metropolitan’ carriage, no. 903.

### Livery

Audrey, Hilary and Mark were painted emerald green with cream window surrounds and black rooftops, and white buffers. One of the composite coaches had an additional cream stripe under the windows.

## Differences between the TV show and the series

* In the TV show, the Old Coaches were non-sentient and were most likely withdrawn from service. In this series, Audrey, Hilary and Mark are sentient and are given to Lauren. They used to be used by anyone who didn't have coaches of their own.

## Trivia

* The preferred voice actors for Audrey, Hilary and Mark are:
	+ Lara Jill Miller (Audrey; Lisa Loud from The Loud House)
	+ Wendy Patterson (Hilary; Annie and Clarabel from the UK dub of All Engines Go!)
	+ Will Harrison-Wallace (Mark; Cranky in the UK dub of All Engines Go!)