Owls hooted to one another in a disgruntled sort of way over the babble and the scraping of heavy trunks. Today we are adventuring into the world of Harry Potter and the Hogwarts Express. When Pottermore the Harry Potter online database opened in we were able to learn more about the history of the locomotive and a few rather interesting facts came to light. The locomotive is now said to be converted to run purely on magic rather than steam.
Pottermore goes into get length about the history of the train itself. The Ministry of Magic conducted a a large-scale operation involving one hundred and sixty-seven Memory Charms, as well as the biggest Concealment Charm ever performed in Britain, in order to acquire the locomotive.
The morning after this operation, the residents of Hogsmeade awoke to find the gleaming red Hogwarts Express and a railway station that had not been there previously, and the Muggle railway employees in Crewe had the feeling they had misplaced something, which stayed with them for the rest of the year. The views that I made were controversial and caused some debate on various social media platforms.
Many enthusiasts are upset about the possible fate of this locomotive and you can understand why — it was not something envisioned by those who saved it from the scrapyard after all. 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. When filmed, ''Olton Hall'' carried a "Hogwarts Express" headboard on the smokebox, featuring the Hogwarts school crest.
The same emblem is featured as part of the "Hogwarts Railways" sigil on the tender and carriages. It retained its GWR number of , but with alternative nameplates fitted, naming the engine ''Hogwarts Castle''.
It is painted in a crimson livery — a non-standard colour, as GWR locomotives traditionally used green. However, it was rejected by film director Chris Columbus as looking "too modern" for the film, but it carried the name and colour for some months afterwards. The renaming as " Castle" has become a railway preservation joke: " Two as part of the Hogwarts Express train ride and the other is a static exhibit in the Hogsmeade area. It has also been displayed at the National Railway Museum in York, when not in operational service.
Studios, Leavesden, near Watford and will remain there for at least another two years. In the Harry Potter films No.
The locomotive also carried a 'Hogwarts Express' headboard for the filming. This role in the movies has made the locomotive famous. Olton Hall weighs 75 tons, and its 2 cylinders are fed by a superheater. Its driving wheels are 72 inches in diameter, and its carrying wheels are 36 inches in diameter.
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