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Old 05-21-2009, 10:54 AM
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Post Video: Hogwarts Express, a History

The Daily Mail travel section has a report, photo and video about the Hogwarts Express, which is due to appear at the Cotswold Festival of Steam in Gloucestershire, England, in a couple days time.

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No. 5972 Olton Hall had its first brush with Hollywood in 2001 when Warner Brothers chose the engine to star in the first Harry Potter film but the locomotive hasn’t always enjoyed such a charmed life. Built in Swindon in 1937, the train was withdrawn from service in 1963 and scrapped. It was rescued from Barry scrapyard in South Wales in 1981 and had a makeover Hollywood would be proud of in 1997.
A video report from the train can be seen below.



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‘It’s nothing more than a fluke that it wasn’t broken up and turned into razor blades,’ Ian Crowder, GWR’s press officer (and an aspiring train driver) tells me. ‘Olton Hall is a good example of what can be done with a load of scrap iron. Over 200 locomotives ended up in that scrap yard, just engine corpses.’

Many of the components for the train were manufactured from scratch although the wheels, frames and parts of the boiler are likely to be original. It’s the first time no. 5972 will have run on a heritage railway and passengers will enjoy a 20-mile huff and puff through glorious Cotswold countryside.


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‘Having this locomotive here is widening the appeal of the railway,' says GWR press officer Ian Crowder. 'It stars in all of the films and while I think people will come along just to see it, hopefully they will enjoy the experience so much they’ll come back.’

So how do you get an A-list steam locomotive to appear on a heritage railway run by volunteers? ‘We simply asked the owner if we could borrow it’ explains Crowder. ‘We pay a ‘steaming’ fee to the owner, which can be anywhere between £200 and £1000 per day.’
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That is so cool!
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Ah, love that train! Locomotives are so beautiful, both on the inside and the outside
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really cool, wish i could ride with that train once
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WOW! That is so interesting i would love to go and ride the train at least once! Can you believe it was scrapped!?
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Great deal! I'd really love to ride in it and be a part of the whole HP experience. Right?
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You're so right! I have a deep love for steam trains
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why can't there be more trains still like this? ... *sigh - remembers when she went to see Starlight Express* electric trains are boring

i so want to go on hogwarts Express, that would be a better memory than heading down to kings cross for a photo!
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I would love to go on the train.
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why can't there be more trains still like this? ... *sigh - remembers when she went to see Starlight Express* electric trains are boring

i so want to go on hogwarts Express, that would be a better memory than heading down to kings cross for a photo!
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I'm so excited to go on it!!
And, my sister knows the guy in the picture! Hee. =)
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I wish we still had steam trains,they much more beautiful and interesting than the ones we do have now.

I wanna go on the Hogwarts Express!!!! [/whining]
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luv it - huge fan of steam trains! Luv to take a ride on the Hogwarts Express!!
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I can only imagine how incredible it would be to ride the rails in such a beautiful machine! It's sad to think that most of it's kind have gone to scrap...
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that is so cool!! I wish it could come to the states!! My son loves trains and HP so it would be a DOUBLE BONUS!!!!
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And, my sister knows the guy in the picture! Hee. =)
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That's so nice!

I wish I could go..
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I'd love to go on it. Alas, to be in LA . Well, good luck to you Brits and the others who travel there!
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