Railroad carriage question (woefully long)

[Amy Z]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., pengolodh_sc at y... wrote:
> Oh, there's no question about that (even if the seats on the 
Hogwarts 
> Express ar not slashed).  The one I'm trying to figure out is how 
> they enter and exit the carriage - through doors at each end, or 
> through doors directly to each compartment.  
> 

Whoa, I thought I was following the whole description but you lost me 
there.

Let's say the train is headed due north and the platform is on the 
west side of the train.  Okay, the way I followed your theory is that 
the corridor runs along the east side, the compartments along the west 
side of the train, and that there is a door on the west side (onto the 
platform) and on the east side (into the corridor).  This permits 
Harry to load his trunk directly off the platform (with some help from 
Gred and Forge <g>) and also permits people to come in and out via the 
corridor.

Now you seem to be introducing the possibility of a north and/or south 
entrance to the compartment?  a la Amtrak (which has ONLY a north and 
south entrance, with no way directly out of a compartment onto the 
platform)?

BTW, I like the east- and west-door possibility but I don't think it's 
strictly necessary.  Maybe Harry loaded his trunk onto the train and 
then took it along the corridor and into the only (the east) door.

I don't have a PoA with me, but IIRC, it seems to imply a single 
door...they keep looking out the window to the outside--wouldn't it 
say out the door if it were a door to the outside?

Amy Z
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