[HPforGrownups] More on the Hogwarts express.

[Simon Biber]

No: HPFGUIDX 6440

The ones I'm talking of are passenger/commuter electric trains in Sydney,
Australia. Thanks for the reply. I understand what sort of carriages you're
talking of, and that design would fit the story better.

Simon.

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JKR stated in a recent chat (well, a month and a half ago or so) that
there are 1000 students at Hogwarts.

The Hogwarts express is a traditional British steam-powered
passenger-train.  The passenger-carriages that you describe sound to me
like the commuter-trains on the American East-coast, or the new German
two-story regional trains - am I right in this understanding?  The
Hogwarts express passenger-carriages would have one story only, and
would have a single corridor along one side of the carriage, with
compartments being the width of ca. 2/3-3/4 the carriage-width, with
each compartment having 6 seats, 3 and 3 facing each other.  A typical
muggle-carriage of this design would have, I believe, 8-11
compartments.  It is not a given, with the Hogwarts express, however,
that the external and internal dimensions of the carriages are related.


Watch British productions of those of Agatha Christie's
murder-mysteries that invole trains to see what types of carriages I am
talking about.