Platform 9¾
Iconic Harry Potter photo installation with a luggage trolley disappearing into a station wall.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Platform 9¾ at King's Cross in London traces why J.K. Rowling picked this station for her fictional portal to Hogwarts, back to her own parents meeting here on a train north to Scotland in the 1950s. It also covers the mix-up that put the wrong platforms in the books, since Rowling was picturing Euston rather than King's Cross when she wrote them, and how the half-swallowed luggage trolley now on display has moved twice as the station was rebuilt. Expect a queue for the photo.
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