Lionel Harry Potter Hogwarts Express Ready to Play Model Train Set with Track | Battery-powered 4-6-0 set with Lights, Sound Effects and Remote, Black, Dark Red, Gold

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We restrict the purchase limit available to a single household to ensure fairness for all of our fans. The journey between Glasgow Queen Street – on the West Highland Line – to Fort William takes around 3 hours and 45 minutes.

Crossing the Glenfinnan Viaduct is impossible to miss, and the Jacobite will go very slowly and may even pause. Interestingly, the Hogwarts Express conductor at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter once claimed that the train was a GWR 5900 and was built in 1936, [20] when the real locomotive was a GWR 4900 (indeed, the 5900 class does not exist) and was built in April of 1937. Train travel lovers and rail pass holders will love the Glasgow Queen Street to Fort William leg of the West Highland Line.

In the films and books, it is suggested the staff of the train, in particular the witch with the food trolley, are able to pass through to see the driver of the train. Our hospitable hosts cooked the most delicious seafood meals, including fresh salmon from the river next to the guest house.

While Hornby (the successor to Tri-ang Hornby) may still have the moulds, they were modified some years ago to produce a Saint class replica. To promote the fourth Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Southern Railway West Country Class locomotive 34027 Taw Valley was temporarily repainted and renamed. the Hall that thinks it's a Castle"—the Great Western Railway Castle Class engines were different and larger. In one of the old train's compartments, Albus Potter met Scorpius Malfoy and, in an ironic reversal of their own fathers, became fast friends. Hopefully, you’ve found this helpful in planning a 2023 trip to see Harry Potter’s Hogwarts Express train in Scotland.Intrigued by Muggle technology, the Minister saw the potential of using a Muggle steam locomotive as a secure and comfortable alternative to Portkeys or to unregulated means of travel. In March 2015, we unveiled a 20,000ft² expansion, including the original Hogwarts Express steam engine and a recreation of Platform 9¾.