Harry Potter

The platform, the alley, the bank and the bridge: where the books are set and the films were shot, the studio where the sets still stand, and the day trips to Hogwarts' lake and the Quidditch woods.

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Platform 9¾, King's Cross

The trolley half through the wall at King's Cross, with the shop done up as Diagon Alley beside it.

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Photo by Matt Brown, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

In the books the Hogwarts Express leaves from a platform between 9 and 10, which the real station does not have, so a luggage trolley was set into a wall of the western concourse when the station was rebuilt in 2012, with a scarf for each house and a photographer. The films shot the platform scenes between real platforms 4 and 5, and used St Pancras next door for the outside. Rowling has said she was picturing Euston when she wrote it. The shop beside the trolley sells wands, robes and the sweets from the trolley witch's cart.

Where
King's Cross Station, Euston Road, N1 9AL
Nearest station
London King's Cross · 1 min walk

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