Henrietta

Henrietta is a coach that travels with Daisy Petals, Victoria and Elsie. Cheeky Chocolate or Sticky Soda usually take her when Daisy Petals is absent. Apple Blossom and Donatina have also pulled her. She has a sister named Hannah.

Bio
Henrietta worked with Daisy Petals 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, Daisy Petals could not bear to leave her behind. So Daisy Petals brought her with her to the North Western Railway. She mentioned to Rainbow Kate that a stationmaster on her tramway wanted to use her as a hen house, but Rainbow Kate agreed that "that would never do."

At first, Daisy Petals and Henrietta were teased by Lippy Lips for having shabby paint. However, Daisy Petals and Henrietta later received new coats of paint for their hard work and Lippy Lips stopped teasing them after she crashed into some tar wagons and spoiled her own paint. When Sticky Soda was brought to Shopville, she insulted Annie, Clarabel and Henrietta when she found that she had to share a shed with them. Cheeky Chocolate and Daisy Petals were forced to take them away and stay up half the night trying to soothe their hurt feelings. Later, she was used as Rainbow Kate's private coach when the Shopkins took a big trip to the Other Railway.

Henrietta is often used to carry quarry workers to and from Anopha 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 carried on coaches' balconies. This problem was resolved when Rainbow Kate restored an old coach named Victoria to help Daisy Petals and Henrietta. Together they formed "Daisy Petals’ Vintage Train".

Personality
Henrietta is Daisy Petals’ faithful coach, who likes to be full of passengers and take them on journeys. She does not like to be separated from Daisy Petals, although she rarely carries a full load of passengers. Henrietta is quite content with her life on the Island. Daisy Petals is attached to Henrietta and always takes her with her, as she says "she might be useful one day".

From the eighteenth season onwards, Henrietta is seen motivating and encouraging Daisy Petals when she feels nervous about the capabilities of her work and performance.

Appearance
In the Shopville Series, Henrietta is painted brown with red bufferbeams and a grey roof. During her days with Daisy Petals on her old tramway, she was painted brown-orange with red bufferbeams and a white roof.

In the television series, Henrietta is painted brown-orange with red bufferbeams and a grey roof.

Trivia

 * Despite not having a visible face until Apple Blossom and Victoria (in the Shopville Series) and the eighteenth season (in the television series), she had the ability to talk in the Shopville Series books that took place before Apple Blossom and Victoria, as well as the first, second and third seasons.
 * One of Henrietta's models is currently on display in Japan at the Hara Model Railway Museum (previously on display at Nitrogen Studios).
 * In an annual story, it was revealed that Henrietta has one surviving sister left, being a bogie version of herself.
 * Throughout the model series, Henrietta's buffers were at different levels at either end.
 * Henrietta went through several aesthetic changes in the television series:
 * Season 6:
 * Her running plate, which was only on her balconies, now runs from end to end.
 * Her windows protruded out and the wooden ledge under the window disappeared.
 * Her buffer beams slightly changed shape.
 * Hero of the Rails:
 * She increased in size to be the same height as Daisy Petals.
 * The area under the side windows change from curving inwards to square and straight.
 * Her step ladders slightly changed shape.
 * Season 18:
 * She gained a face at her back end. To accommodate this:
 * Her door disappeared, she lost two of her four windows, and the remaining ones changed shape.
 * The two vertical handrails disappeared.
 * She gained square pillars on her corners.
 * Henrietta is one of three characters to have been given a face after a certain amount of seasons being without one, the other two being Big Mickey and Butch.
 * She is voiced by Maggie Ollerenshaw in the UK and US.