Henrietta

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**Henrietta** is 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.

## History

### 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 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.

## 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.

## Trivia

* Despite not having a visible face until *Thomas and Victoria* (in *The Railway Series*) and the eighteenth series (in the television series), she had the ability to speak in *The Railway Series* books that took place before *Thomas and Victoria*, as well as the first and second series.
* In an annual story, it was revealed that Henrietta has one surviving sister left, being a bogie version of herself. This may have led to the creation of Hannah.
* Until the twenty-third series, Henrietta used to be one of eleven characters to appear in every series of the television series.
* Henrietta is one of three characters to have been given a face after debuting without one, the other two being Big Mickey and Butch.
* She did not have a speaking role in the years between the third and seventeenth series.
* In the magazine story, *Toby Takes a Tumble*, Henrietta can apparently 'move' by herself but just by releasing her brake and rolling.
* At The Train Shed, Henrietta is depicted with her name on the side, similar to Annie and Clarabel.