Hogwarts the Hogwarts Express that students take at the start of each school year. Students board the train from the also fictional and hidden Platform 9¾ at King's Cross station in London. The train arrives near Hogwarts, some time after nightfall. From there, first-year students are accompanied by the "Keeper of the Keys, Game and Grounds" (which was Hagrid during the first novel) to small boats, which magically sail across the lake and get them near the entrance of Hogwarts. The older students ride up to the castle in carriages pulled by creatures called Thestrals. When the first-year students initially arrive
Hogwarts expansion in Universal Studios Florida to the Hogsmeade station at Islands of Adventure, manufactured by Doppelmayr Garaventa Group in the form of a funicular railway people mover. The Hogwarts Express King's Cross Station features a wall between Platforms 9 and 10, where guests can "walk through" to get to Platform , like in the first film. Most translations keep the name 'Hogwarts', transcribing it if necessary (for example Arabic = "Hūghwūrts", Russian = "Khogvarts", Japanese = "Hoguwātsu", Bengali = "Hogowarts", Greek = "Hóguarts", simplified Chinese = "Huògéwòcí"). But some translate or otherwise adapt it: French ' (' = "bacon"), Latvian