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Saturday, October 13, 2007

Platform 9-3/4



Well, I supposed this would not merit a post by itself if not for Harry Potter.

Went to the railway station at the city centre yesterday to buy the Young Person's Pass (ok, I am not young, but mature students are also entitled to it) which will give me 30% discounts on trains tickets. After that, I wandered on to the platform (apparently tickets only need to be shown after boarding), and was pleasantly surprise to see another familiar scene from Harry Potter. The photos are here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/puayc/tags/railwaystation/

Apparently, there is a real Platform 9-3/4 at London's King Cross station, which can be reached via a direct train from York.

3 comments:

Seismic said...

Since you are interested in harry potter.

Here is the link to train and railway.
http://www.steamtrain.info/harry.htm

Here is the link to Hogwarts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/interactive/interactive_map/gloucester/gloucester_cathedral.shtml

Got from
http://www.hpfgu.org.uk/faq/geography.html

Seismic said...

Here is another Hogwarts School
http://www.alnwickcastle.com/film.php

Seismic said...

Some more news on Hogwarts.
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,144667,00.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/photos/2007/10/13/2058636.htm