The Jacobite Steam Train (aka The Hogwarts Express)
Posted in Exhibitions, Nostalgia, Trips at 19:50 on 23 June 2014
This was the reason we went to Fort William.
My work colleagues had given me a voucher for two tickets on an excursion from Fort William to Mallaig on the Jacobite Steam train run by West Coast Railways. This is the train that features as the Hogwarts Express in the Harry Potter films.
We hadn’t been on a steam train since we took the boys on the one at Bo’ness in the long ago.
That British Railways logo is a cracker.
It’s reminiscent of the one used for the British Empire Exhibition of 1924-25.
See more images of the Wembley Lion here.
When we debarked at Mallaig Station the footplatemen were hard at work shovelling coal on the Jacobite’s coal tender.
The end of the line at Mallaig:-
Tags: Bo'ness, British Empire Exhibition 1924, Empire Exhibition 1924, Fort William, Harry Potter, Hogwarts Express, Jacobite Steam Train, Mallaig, The Jacobite, trains, Wembley Lion
Denis Cullinan
23 June 2014 at 21:50
The URLs below will show you parts of the British Empire building in Rockefeller Center, an Art Deco wonder. (1) emblem of the Royal Banner of England. I used to see this decoration every night for eleven years on my way home from my “retirement job.”
(1) http://www.pinterest.com/pin/515310382334578006/
URL(2), below, shows the entrance doors of the Brit. Empire Bldg. The design of Rockefeller Center is a great thing, but the corny themes (having to do with Progress blah yak zot) evoke a giggle in the present age.
(2) http://chicago-architecture-jyoti.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-york-city-art-deco-artwork-in.html
jackdeighton
24 June 2014 at 00:18
Thanks a lot for this, Denis.
Stunning stuff.