Denna

**Denna** is a red tank engine who lives and works on the Great Southwest Railway. Her first appearance was in the first season episode, Coal-O-Trick.

## Biography

### *Season 1*

She came to Sodor in Fall 1862 to help on the GSR and was purchased by Sir Harry Norton. On Halloween day she was scared by Jordyn. Finding revenge, she makes a plan with Philipo and Dany. She disguised as The Ghost Train and scared Jordyn, giving her a lesson.

In winter from that year, She and the rest of the engines were waiting for Jordyn at Reslond Sqaure, but she never came. So, she, Philipo and London went all over the island to find her. Later, they crossed the Neisserkast Bridge to get to the Mainland, but the snow was blocking the line, Philipo encouraged Denna and she blocked out the bridge. She and the engines later found Jordyn and decided to stay in the British sheds until the morning.

In early 1863, she got her cowcatcher removed and gained front buffers. And she set off to work to clear the tracks covered with snow, the next day Philipo had an accident and she helped him and took him to the works.

In Fall 1863, Denna warned Philipo about a ghost on the forest branch line and an old legend, but he didn't care. After he got scared by a spooky whistle, the next day, Philipo was running late again to the forest, but Denna stopped him and teased him about what happened the last night. Philipo told Denna that everything was true, but she didn't believed him, and he left.

In Winter of the same year, she told Sakura about some strange noises that she heard on the mountain line. When Jordyn mentioned the legend of the Coach of the Snows, Denna said that she wasn't sure if the coach was real.

### *The Coach of the Snows: A GSRA Story*

Denna worked as the express engine since her arrival. One day, she stopped Philipo and teased him about that ghosts doesn't exist. Philipo told Denna that he was telling the truth, but she didn't believed him, Phliipo go mad on her, so he left. Five minutes later, Sakura first met Denna, and they talked about the confusion that occurred the last night in the forest. Denna told her that Philipo though Sakura was a ghost. So, she decided to go and talk with Philipo.

In Winter, Denna, Sakura and Jordyn were talking about some strange noises they heard in the mountain line, then Jordyn that it was the Coach of the Snows, Denna told Sakura that they didn't know if the coach was real, and Sakura set off to find the missing coach. Once Owen was found, some days later, she attended to Owen's revelation in the works.

In Spring, she was present in the reopening of the forest branch line, and said goodbye to Sakura when she had to return to her country.

## Personality

Denna is very decided, bold, brave and strong, she faces and overtake her own obstacles y goes after what she wants. She is very kind with everyone, supports her friends unconditionally, she never gives up and is an engine who describe herself as "Forward engine".

## Technical Details

### *Basis*

Denna had some problems in the past, she was originally planned to be a Beattie 2-2-2 tank engine, but her blueprints were accidentally changed, no one knows how or why this happened and the mistake was discovered later. Because of that, she wasn't able to pull passenger trains and freight cars properly.

She worked for a short time on the Danish Railway at Denmark circa 1857, later she was putted out of service. By the time Sir Harry Northon bought her, she needed a rebuild, so her tender was removed and turned into a tank engine. Denna is a highly modified 0-4-0 Strasburg RR 90 class engine.

She usually works on the Main Line as the main express engine for “The Wild Southwester” also from time to time, she do heavy goods train duties.

Denna past through differents changes between episodes 3 and 4:

* She gains a set of white buffers.
* A visible whistle was added.
* She gains windows on the front of her cab.
* She gains a brake pipe and two lamp irons.
* Now has two pistons.
* Two nameplates were added on both side of her cab.

In the episodes 7 and 8, she had some minor changes:

* The nameplates, the pistons, brake pipe, lamp irons and the buffers were removed.
* The cowcatcher was placed again.

In The Coach of the Snows: A GSRA Story, she had some differences between his shape in the special and her Season 1 shape:

* She now has a visible whistle.
* She gained black chains and couplings.
* Black metal plates were added on both sides of his running board.
* A headlight is added.
* She gained a tail lamp.
* She gained rivets across her front and back bufferbeams.
* A GSR emblem plate was added on both sides of her boiler.
* The brake pipe and the lamp irons returned.
* The design of the nameplates are different.

### Livery

Denna is painted red with black lining, with two nameplates on both sides of her cabs.

## Appearances

### *Season 1*

* Coal-O-Trick
* Searching Jordyn
* Be Careful with the Snow
* Philipo and the Goods Train *(does not speak)*
* The Coach of the Snows
* Philipo Gets Spooked