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 hours to complete the model. The Hogwarts Express is a train that carries students non-stop from Platform at King's Cross station in London to Hogsmeade Station, near Hogwarts. Prefects of the school ride in a separate carriage near the front of the train. The compartments on the train appear to be lettered; in "Half-Blood Prince", the "Slug Club" meets in compartment C. The train began use in the 1850s. Before that, students used to reach Hogwarts on brooms or enchanted carriages. The steam engine used in the film adaptations is the GWR 4900 Class 5972 "Olton Hall", but it was