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After continuing around several corners, guests arrive on Platform 9 + 3 ⁄ 4 to wait for the next train. After the Hogwarts Express has reversed into Platform 9 + 3 ⁄ 4 and the arriving passengers have disembarked, the next passengers enter one of the twenty-one compartments in the three passenger coaches. [29] [31]
Following the success of Harry Potter, a sign reading "Platform 9¾ " was installed at London's King's Cross railway station. The Hogwarts Express train departs from the fictional Platform 9¾ at King's Cross railway station. The platform is accessed by magically walking through a solid barrier between platforms 9 and 10.
King's Cross features in the Harry Potter books, by J. K. Rowling, as the starting point of the Hogwarts Express. The train uses a secret Platform 9 + 3 ⁄ 4 accessed through the brick wall barrier between platforms 9 and 10. [104] In fact, platforms 9 and 10 are in a separate building from the main station and are separated by two intervening ...
The Hogwarts Express "departed" from Platform 9¾ at King's Cross station in London on Friday morning (1 September). Harry Potter fans, including Made in Chelsea star Sam Thompson, gathered at the ...
The ‘Back To Hogwarts’ event in the capital also included wand combat workshops as well as a rendition of a wand dance from the West End cast of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child.
King's Cross Station is also depicted as the starting point of the Hogwarts Express in the books and films of the Harry Potter franchise. This connection is marked by a tourist attraction within the station concourse, featuring the Platform 9 + 3 ⁄ 4 sign and a luggage trolley partially embedded in the station wall with an owl cage and ...
These include the Glenfinnan Viaduct, famed as the route to Hogwarts in the Harry Potter films with the privately owned Jacobite steam train featured as the Hogwarts Express, and views of Britain ...
In the Harry Potter films, the locomotive is depicted pulling the Hogwarts Express, a fictional train, made up of four (later five) British Rail Mark 1 carriages. Scenes were filmed at King's Cross railway station, the Glenfinnan Viaduct and the North Yorkshire Moors Railway — along with internal scenes on board the train.