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English: Wall in King's Cross station, London, showing the sign "Platform 9 3/4" and a half trolley with luggage, pushed halfway through the wall. The trolley with owl and cage are additions of 2013 or 2014.
Tourists at Platform 9 + 3 ⁄ 4 in the western departures concourse. 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]
After Alan Rickman's death in 2016, Harry Potter fans created a memorial to the actor at Platform 9¾. [40] A Harry Potter–themed store is also located in the station near the plaque. [41] There is a replica of King's Cross at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter themed area at Universal Orlando Resort. It features a wall between Platforms 9 ...
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]
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Imitation of the fictional Platform 9 + 3 ⁄ 4 at the real King's Cross railway station, with a luggage trolley apparently halfway through the magical wall Bloomsbury accepted the book, paying Rowling a £2,500 advance [ 16 ] and Cunningham sent proof copies to carefully chosen authors, critics and booksellers in order to obtain comments that ...
Platform 9 3⁄4 at King's Cross railway station (Harry Potter) Buckingham Palace – Churchill: The Hollywood Years; King's Cross railway station Platform 9 3/4 — Harry Potter films; Walford East – EastEnders; Charnham – Family Affairs
The platform accommodating 3 and 4 is an "island" platform. Platform types include the bay platform, side platform (also called through platform), split platform and island platform. A bay platform is one at which the track terminates, i.e. a dead-end or siding. Trains serving a bay platform must reverse in or out. A side platform is the more ...