If you know the stories of Harry Potter, you may well know Hogsmeade Station. It is the final destination of The Hogwarts Express, starting from Platform 9 3/4 in London. The train is made in model by Hornby and Märklin, but what if you want to model the stations? Platform 9 3/4 is made by Hornby, reference R 8240A. But how about Hogsmeade Station?

Let's take a look at the movie scenes:





On internet I've learned that in real life this station is known as Goathland Station —>
http://en.wikipedia.org/...oathland_railway_station
And Goathland Station looks like this in daily life:



If you are familiar with the Hornby Skaledale range, you immediately recognize R 8629 Station Building, R 8630 Toilet Block and R 8631 Extension Building.



Now, let's take another look around. The platform at the other side looks like it was build from Hornby parts. Pity though, with a modeltrain it is the other way around.



On the left we see Hornby R 8720 Lower Skaledale Office:



And on the right Hornby R 8638 Platform Shelter.



Both items are in the Harry Potter film painted red, but that is not difficult to do.
Does somebody have a good suggestion for paint?

Now a look at the lineside:



I'll start with the signal box at your right hand, quite in front.
Here we see Hornby R 8632 Signal box:



And at your left, in the background, you see a water tower.
Hornby R 8639 Water Tower:



And last, but not least, the footbridge in the movie scene is Hornby R 8641 Footbridge:



I hope this may help the Harry Potter fans. For me, it was a lot of fun to sort this out.
Have fun.

Very nice detail, its a shame marklin didn't do a better job with there set. I will say this I saw the Lionel set at my dealer two weeks ago and marklins is much better. Lionel did at least match the paint of the cars with the loc.

Zora, This is a very nice piece of research, well done.
Ross

Very nice indeed!

Costas

I have a Hornby catalogue as reference for the Skaledale models. If you look at the pages of The Hogwarts Express, you will see Hagrid and Harry Potter on the platform. No idea who is making them? Could also be a Photoshop trick....