confirmation .. Hogwarts is in Scotland - MAPS

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 83987

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> > bboyy_mn:
> > 
> > Most of you have seen this already, but as the subject has come
> > up, I will post it agian.
> > 
> > Web link - Location of Peebles relative to nearest UK rail line-
> > http://bluemoonmarket.homestead.com/Files/Hogwarts/UK-Rail1.htm
> > 


> 
> ..., but Peebles hasn't had a rail link since the 1960s. IIRC, it 
> was on the old "Waverley Route" from Carlisle to Edinburgh which was
> closed along with thousands of other miles of lines ...
> 
> Any train heading northwards from Kings Cross to Scotland would 
> either follow the East Coast Main Line (ECML) into Edinburgh or 
> swing west at Newcastle across to Carlisle and pick up the WCML 
> through Lockerbie and Motherwell into Glasgow.
> 
> Geoff:


bboy_mn:

Perhaps, this should be off-line; not sure. Oh well, crack on anyway.

The rail line I highlighted on my map does not go through Peebles, it
passes 27km west of Peebles, and although it takes several maps to
determine it, I believe the rail line I highlighted does go through
Carlisle and Lockerbie. 

I discounted the East Coast Main Line, because the books don't mention
Hogwart Express passing though any major cities. Pretty hard to pass
througth Glasgow or Edinburgh, and not notice it. And when I created
the map I was specifically looking for the nearest major rail line to
Peebles because someone in Peebles saw the flying Ford Anglia. 

I'm guessing Harry and Ron weren't flying directly above the rail
line. So if the kept the rail line off to the side so they could see
it easier and flew to the East of the tracks, they would have flown
somewhere in the 27km space between the rail line and Peeble, and
would have been insight of both locations. 

Essential, I am trying to construct a reality that conforms to the
book. Given the location of major rail lines on the maps I have, it
would seem difficult for anyone IN Peebles to get a good look at the
flying car. On the other hand, if I must twist reality to fit fiction,
it says the woman who saw the flying car was FROM Peebles, although I
should probably check rather than rely on memory, it doesn't
necessarily say she was IN Peebles at the time she saw the car.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn