Hogwarts Express: inside the new Harry Potter Warner Bros experience, For all the flying Ford Fiestas, broomsticks and Floo Powder, the mode of transport which plays the biggest role in Harry Potter is the rather prosaic train.
It was on a train, from Manchester to London in the summer of 1990, that JK Rowling first thought of The Boy Who Lived. Now, seven books, eight films, millions of pounds and 25 years later, Potter’s devoted fans can walk through the Hogwarts Express: the gleaming locomotive that transported Hogwarts students between their school and King's Cross Station.
The 78-year-old steam train that operated throughout the film franchise has been installed at a new extension of the Harry Potter tour at Warner Bros Studios in Leavesden – although those wishing to ride will be disappointed. Known, off-set, as Olton Hall, the 4-6-0 locomotive was in service between 1937 and 1963.Read More
It was on a train, from Manchester to London in the summer of 1990, that JK Rowling first thought of The Boy Who Lived. Now, seven books, eight films, millions of pounds and 25 years later, Potter’s devoted fans can walk through the Hogwarts Express: the gleaming locomotive that transported Hogwarts students between their school and King's Cross Station.The 78-year-old steam train that operated throughout the film franchise has been installed at a new extension of the Harry Potter tour at Warner Bros Studios in Leavesden – although those wishing to ride will be disappointed. Known, off-set, as Olton Hall, the 4-6-0 locomotive was in service between 1937 and 1963.Read More
