We also spent two nights at the Marmalade Hotel in Portree, an ideal base for visiting other parts of the island while soaking up the evening atmosphere of the island’s capital.

After the viaduct, the train doesn’t go onto Hogwarts, but you’ll be far from disappointed about the rest of the trip. Olton Hall is a preserved Great Western Railway Hall class locomotive made famous for being depicted to pull the Hogwarts Express in the Harry Potter film series. Please note, box and model dimensions are shown as identical however only represent the box/package size. We hired a car for a few days to explore the area from Fort William, and our hire company conveniently delivered our vehicle to Fort William Station. The model is also available decorated as Hogwarts Castle, as part of their Harry Potter film tie-in range.

They've crossed through the barrier to PLATFORM 9 ¾™ , eyed the various goodies on the snack trolley and are headed to HOGWARTS™ School of Witchcraft and Wizardry aboard the HOGWARTS Express.

In 2022, Lego announced a detailed brick-built model of the train as it appears in the Harry Potter films.These enclosed compartments seat six people with a door that leads to a corridor running the entire length of the carriage. Every inch of the platform’s glass roof, yellow brick walls and luggage racks, designed by Production Designer Stuart Craig, has been painstakingly reassembled by a team led by Construction Manager Paul Hayes and dressed by Set Decorator Rosie Goodwin.

K. Rowling's fourth Harry Potter book, a West Country Class Southern Railway locomotive, named Taw Valley, was painted crimson red and was given the Hogwarts Express nameplate. On the journey from Fort William to Mallaig, look out for these locations used in the Harry Potter movies.Why not take a day trip from Edinburgh by train and visit cosmopolitan Glasgow, historical Stirling, seaside North Berwick, Pitlochry’s whisky distilleries, the ‘home of golf’ at St Andrews or Falkirk’s Kelpies? I’ve done this trip myself and highly recommend spending some time at both ends of the railway at Fort William and the Isle of Skye (via a ferry from Mallaig). That being said, there are no official records as to whether the service is operated on just one day at the start and end of term, or for several days on a timetable, or whether or not the coaches are charmed to be bigger on the inside than the outside similar to tents. He's assembled, disassembled, and reassembled this set 3-4 times in the last year, so I feel like I got the bang for my buck.

Missed payments may affect your ability to use Clearpay in the future and your details may be passed onto a debt collection agency working on Clearpay's behalf. Yet it was rejected by Chris Columbus, the film director, because it looked too modern for the film's taste. The Platform 9 3⁄4 set at Warner Brothers: The Making of Harry Potter is the next best thing if you can’t ride Scotland’s Hogwarts Express. A previous Hornby model of the locomotive was actually a model of a Castle class locomotive, not a Hall.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. Enjoy the UK’s outdoor capital with stunning views like this of Fort William, Loch Linnhe, Loch Eil and surrounding mountains from the Nevis Range – image: © The Train Hacker Images/Chris P King 3. In brilliant Hogwarts red and containing a DCC Ready 5972 locomotive with working headlight, plus two coaches, this set makes a perfect gift or addition for any Harry Potter fan!