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King's Cross vs St Pancras

posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 11:36pm on 18/07/2011
Poor King's Cross. Forever getting overlooked in favor of its architecturally more admirable neighbor. St. Pancras has finished its lovely renovation and is looking really rather good. Its neo-gothic arches line the ghosts of Harry's afterlife, which he recognizes - wrongly - as King's Cross.

The movies are good about having the Hogwarts Express leave from an actual King's Cross-looking platform at least.

Speaking of which, last night while waiting for a late night bus in front of King's Cross station, I noticed that "Platform 9 3/4" had been moved from inside the station to a new, more out-of-the-way and easy-to-find location at the visibel front of the station as part of ongoing renovations.

Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] highlyeccentric for organizing tonight's movie-going!

P.S. Am back from conferences and from Paris! Home!
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posted by [identity profile] major-clanger.livejournal.com at 10:48pm on 18/07/2011
I noticed one odd anachronism in the final scene; supposedly set in 2017, it features a Virgin Pendolino (fair enough, they'll be in service for a while yet) on one side of the platform, but an old slam-door carriage train on the other. Perhaps it's meant to be a heritage train of some sort?
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posted by [identity profile] haggisthesecond.livejournal.com at 08:23pm on 19/07/2011
Welcome home! x
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LOL

posted by [identity profile] cursor-mundi.livejournal.com at 09:17pm on 19/07/2011
I was glancing through a paper today, and there was an article talking about how Wayne Rooney's wife has taken 3 foreign vacations in the last few months -- to, eh, the Mediterranean, Dubai, and Scotland. Yes.

So clearly St. Pancras is the appropriate point of departure since Hogwarts is apparently a "foreign destination"!
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posted by [identity profile] matrygg.livejournal.com at 10:48pm on 19/07/2011
I saw that platform change the other day. Also, I took the external shot to be the Renaissance Hotel rather than the station.
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