StephenHunter
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Please move if in the wrong place, but there's some vintage-looking Tube stock and NSE signage in the teaser here, in keeping with the 1991-1992 setting of the first book.
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Harry Potter TV series
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Please move if in the wrong place, but there's some vintage-looking Tube stock and NSE signage in the teaser here, in keeping with the 1991-1992 setting of the first book.
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norbitonflyer
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Tube stock looks line 1938 Stock. Northern Line Car diagram from c1990 (East London Line in orange, Jubilee Line at Charing Cross)
Where is the tube station HP and hagrid are seen coming out of at 0:53? That bridge span is quite distinctive but it doesn't look like Kings Cross
Where is the tube station HP and hagrid are seen coming out of at 0:53? That bridge span is quite distinctive but it doesn't look like Kings Cross
Sloane Square?
Sun Chariot
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I think it's a CGI montage. That overbridge looks like the one between Waterloo main line (building on right) and Waterloo East - but there is no Underground subway at that spot there.
Looking again I suspect you're right, my suggestions was miles out.
greghudson
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It's Charing Cross station.
Sun Chariot
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Well apotted!
Good grief, I've walked down Villiers Street many dozens of times and I completely failed to recognise that "Strand end" walkway.
I'd often walk along Charing Cross elevated walkway, on the outside of the station's concourse, above Villiers Street.
norbitonflyer
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....which makes perfect sense as they are, presumably, going to Diagon Alley, which is off Charing Cross Road. The tiling - very 70s, dating from the rebuilding of the station for the Jubilee Line - should have given it away. And the Northern Line serves Charing Cross (although it is not clear where HP and Hagrid would have been coming from, as from Surrey they would have used the main line to Waterloo)
1938 stock slightly anachronistic for the early 90s, as the last ones ran, on the Northern Line, in 1988.
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Sun Chariot
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Thanks for reminding me.
I used to walk under both (and across the Waterloo one) back in latter 1990s and until 2005.i hadn't even noticed Charing Cross's!My grey cells of memory aren't what they used to be.
Peter Mugridge
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Ah, but they use magic so naturally they will conjure up for themselves the best ever deep tube stock.
Is not the Hogwarts Express itself still steam well after 1968? Same principle...
Sun Chariot
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I think you're onto something.Ah, but they use magic so naturally they will conjure up for themselves the best ever deep tube stock.
Is not the Hogwarts Express itself still steam well after 1968? Same principle...
If only the producer could recapture the magic of a full-length journey on Cross Country's erstwhile Penzance to Aberdeen service:
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Voyager.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Locked-out-of-use.
Harry Potter and the Deathly-guilt-after-other-passengers-know-who-caused-it-to-be-locked-out-of-use.
Harry Potter and the Order of the RPI.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of only-thing-left-on-the-trolley.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood-remaining-in-his-limbs-after-that-trip.
Is the 1938 stock finished in the usual shade of "Hogwart's Express Locomotive Red"?Ah, but they use magic so naturally they will conjure up for themselves the best ever deep tube stock.
Is not the Hogwarts Express itself still steam well after 1968? Same principle...
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