Has anyone been to the locations of the Harry Potter films?

[Theresa]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "hpoldfan" <wfeuc at ...> wrote:
>
> This was a tour run by HP Fan trips for the opening of POA. What 
> happened according to  the tour director, they talked to the 
owners 
> of the train wondering if they could hold a party in one of the 
> cars. The reply was "they would really like to run the train as it 
> does not get out very much" Our group had exclusive use of the two 
> cars that you see in the movie, several other cars were made 
> available for promotion by a local radio station. If I remember 
> correctly there were a total of 7 cars.
> 
> The fascinating thing was even through we were almost an hour late 
> leaving the station how many people were waiting at the side of 
the 
> tracks for the train to pass. When we paralleled the highway, cars 
> would pull over and stop until we passed.
> 
> I do not know if this was a one time thing or not.
> 
> Bill

Travel Britain.com had a similar promotion where you got to take a 
short ride on the train but it was too cost prohibitive for me to 
fly from Arizona and then pay for the tour as well.

How cool that you got to experience that. Hope you took some cool 
photographs. I have a picture standing at Kings Cross between 
platforms 9 and 10. Of course, I went there prior to the films (I 
think they were filming SS at the time). There was a gentleman 
assisting people at this ticketing machine who asked me if I knew 
they were actually filming the train station some where else. He was 
a fan too and worked at Kings Cross and was sad that they didn't 
actually film there. But man that train station is so busy I imagine 
they would have a difficult time doing the filming there.

Anyway, good for you that you got to actually ride on the Hogwarts' 
Express.

Theresa