What is the name of the train that carries students to Hogwarts in the Harry Potter films?

The Hogwarts Express carries students to Hogwarts in the Harry Potter films.

The scarlet steam train departs from Platform 9¾ at London’s King’s Cross Station. Students board it at the start of the school year and use it again when returning home for holidays. Harry first meets Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger aboard the train in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

The train is a recurring setting throughout the series. Its compartments provide space for friendships, conversations, conflicts, and encounters with characters such as Professor Remus Lupin. The journey also establishes the transition between ordinary London life and the wizarding world.

The film production used a real steam locomotive, Great Western Railway 5972 Olton Hall, which was dressed as the Hogwarts Express. The Jacobite steam train in Scotland is associated with some railway scenery, but it is not the train’s fictional name.