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Hogwarts Express 
 
The GWR 4900 Class 5972 Olton Hall, the steam engine used in the film series "Harry Potter" as the Hogwarts Express. This has become something of a joke in railway preservation circles as it carries the nameplate "Hogwarts Castle" in fact GWR Castle Class locomotives were somewhat larger. The maroon colour scheme is also false, as GWR used Brunswick Green