Henry

## Henry The Green Engine

Henry is a big green tender engine who works on the North Western Railway on the Island of Sodor. He is the railway's number 3 engine.

## Biography:

Henry is one of Sir Topham Hatt's engines who is a heavy mixed-traffic tender engine. He is known for pulling the flying kipper and pulling express coaches. He is seen throughout the time pulling heavy goods from stations to yards, and often times taking coaches. He has had many different tales, such as getting sick and gaining a new shape at Crewe, and being tricked into taking tenders filled of boiler sludge.

Henry had once attended a Christmas gathering during the winter season, and had been one of the engines who had listened to Gordon talking about his race with Spencer. When Sir Topham Hatt arranged a welcome party for Red, Subway, and Brandon, Henry had helped get things ready; He worked with Gordon in taking passengers. When Subway arrived at Elsbridge, Henry was there, along with Thomas, asking how his inspection was going and if he had met Red and Brandon yet. At night, Henry had attended the welcome party, calling out that the engines were near.

## Personality:

Henry is a long, fast engine. He has a thoroughbred look and like all thoroughbreds, tends to be somewhat highly sprung and prone to illness. But he has his new shape now, and sympathetically driven, he'll give any engine a run for its money.

He tends to be a very busy engine, always taking goods and passengers about, but is always happy to see his friends working hard and saying '*hello*'. He does however, can complain about something he isn't fond of, and likes to joke about things that he finds worthy being joked about.

## Appearances:

**Take N Play Thomas and Friends Stories**

* Death Of An Elder Part One (*cameo*)
* Jingle Rails (*cameo*)
* Death Of An Elder Part Two (*cameo*)
* Thomas And The Jet Engine 2 (*not named; does not speak*)
* The Welcome Party

**Take N Play Thomas and Friends Remakes**

* Thomas And The Jet Engine
* Thomas Gets Tricked (*cameo*)
* Peace And Quiet
* Tender Engines
* Granpuff (*cameo*)
* Sleeping Beauty
* Escape (*cameo*)
* Scaredy Engines (*not named*)
* Edward Helps Out (*not named; does not speak*)
* Bulldog
* Salty's Secret (*cameo*)
* Bowled Out

**Take N Play Railway Series Adaptions**

* Triple Header (*does not speak*)
* Drip Tank (*does not speak*)
* 'Hullo Twins!'
* The Missing Coach
* High-Speed Gordon

## Model Used:

From 2019 to 2021, the 2010 Take-N-Play Henry toy was first used in the videos, but being in poor condition. From 2021-onwards, a new 2013 Talking Take-N-Play Henry was used from then on.

In some videos, when interacting with the narrow gauge engines, a Motorized toy of Henry was used.

## Technical Details:

In his original form, Henry is based on one of the early rejected designs for Gresley's Great Northern Railway A1, While it is unknown which exact one Henry was built from, it would have to be one of the designs made before 1919.

Following the Flying Kipper accident, Henry was rebuilt into an LMS Stanier 5MT, 'Black Five'.

In real life, eighteen Black Fives have been preserved, with twelve of them being purchased directly from BR for preservation (these being 44767, 44806, 44871, 44932, 45000, 45025, 45110, 45212, 45231, 45305, 45407 & 45428), the remaining six being rescued from Woodham Brothers' Barry Scrapyard (these being 44901, 45163, 45293, 45337, 45379 & 45491).

## Trivia:

* Henry's first speaking role in *Take N Play Thomas and Friends Stories* was in the thirteenth episode, *The Welcome Party*.
* Henry was the first tender engine to have Motorized toy to interact with the narrow gauge engines.
* In both parts of *Death Of An Elder*, Henry is shown in both episodes with goods trains.
* Henry is the first Take-N-Play engine, not including Motorized, in the series to have lamp irons.
* The Talking Take-N-Play Henry toy had came come Hawaii.