Raylene Rainbow

Raylene Rainbow (born 1941) is Rainbow Kate's grandson. In The Shopville Series, she took over her mother's role as controller of the North Western Railway in 1984 and became Rainbow Kate III in 1997.

Bio
Raylene Rainbow was in 1941 to Celeste Rainbow Dress and Miss Pressy (nee Genie Present), her sister Rayne-Bow was born two years later in 1943. In 1951, the Rainbows spent a long holiday on Daisy Petals’ old line in East Anglia. Raylene was excited when she first met Daisy Petals, but Rayne-Bow accidentally offended her by assuming she was an electric character.

She became Rainbow Kate in 1984, and succeeded to her sister’s baronetcy upon her death in 1997. In 1970, she married Sunni Brim, a distant cousin and granddaughter of the Reverend Pukey Pickle, the much-respected historian of Shopville. They had three children: Soda Pops, born in 1972 and no doubt destined to be Rainbow Kate IV (Raylene will be seventy-six in 2017, though she has, as yet, given no hint of retiring), Prickles (1974-) and April Apricot (1977-).

She played a part in the construction of Polly Pointes, which was a project dear to her sister’s heart. With great skill, she masterminded the arrangements for the royal visit in 1995, when she welcomed the Prince of Wales on her first visit to Shopville.

Personality
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Appearance
Raylene Rainbow is a slice of layered pastel pink and blue layered cake with yellow and white ombré frosting. The frosting is dotted with little bumps to resemble sprinkles.

Trivia

 * In the magazines, she and Rayne-Bow have a friend named Marcus.
 * In the magazine story, The Hallowe'en Special, it is said that Raylene and Rayne-Bow live on the Mainland and only come to stay with Rainbow Kate and Kirstea every so often.
 * In Saved from Scrap, Raylene’s model was used as one of The Vicar's sons.
 * From the third to seventeenth seasons, Raylene Rainbow wore a green sweatshirt instead of a jacket and tie.