{"id":34786,"date":"2020-01-13T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ianvisits.co.uk\/blog\/?p=34786"},"modified":"2024-01-13T08:30:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T08:30:57","slug":"are-harry-potter-fans-injured-trying-to-get-to-platform-9%c2%be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianvisits.co.uk\/articles\/are-harry-potter-fans-injured-trying-to-get-to-platform-9%c2%be-34786\/","title":{"rendered":"How many Harry Potter fans were injured trying to get to platform 9\u00be?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As fans of a certain novel and film will know, at King’s Cross there’s a secret platform, 9\u00be which takes you to the Hogwarts Express.<\/span><\/p>\n

To get to the magical platform, you should go to the space between platforms 9 and 10, then run very fast at the brick pillars — and if magical, you’ll come out next to a steam train.<\/span><\/p>\n

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If not magical, or blocked by an elf, you’ll have a very sore nose. Not to mention other parts.<\/span><\/p>\n

The question is though, how many people attempt that journey in the real world King’s Cross.<\/span><\/p>\n

A freedom of information request<\/a> found that Network Rail has “not received\u00a0any\u00a0reports\u00a0of\u00a0individuals\u00a0colliding with\u00a0the pillars between platforms 9\u00a0and 10.”<\/p>\n

At least, no reports of anyone who would admit to doing such a thing.<\/p>\n

Most attempts though being thwarted by the fact that platforms 9 and 10 are not in the main shed, where the filming took place but the side annex, where there are no brick pillars to run at — and that there’s a perfectly good queue to pose with a stuck luggage trolley on the main concourse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As fans of a certain novel and film will know, at King’s Cross there’s a secret platform, 9\u00be which takes you to the Hogwarts Express.<\/p>\n

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