Posted by Robert Hill on December 11, 2004 at 20:58:58 from 195.92.168.163 user eclrh.
In Reply to: Re: Harry Potter in Lakeland District? posted by Alan Hakim on December 10, 2004 at 18:09:10:
I don't think it's true, as Alan Hakim says, that most of the aerial views of the train in the Harry Potter films are shot on the North Yorkshire Moors railway. The Hogwarts station shots are done there, at Goathland station. The village of Goathland has appeared on the Lakeland Cam when Tony Richards was on one of his holidays at Whitby. Goathland village also features in the British TV series Heartbeat, where it is called Aidenfield or some such.
When the Hogwarts Express is seen travelling through wild scenery, that is shot on the West Highland Line in Scotland. The line runs from Fort William to Mallaig.
Glenfinnan Viaduct on the West Highland Line features in both Chamber of Secrets, when the flying car comes close to being hit by the train, and in Prisoner of Azkaban when the train stops there to let the Dementor on board. This viaduct is the earliest major reinforced concrete structure in Britain (the line was just about the last major railway line to be built in the country, neglecting modern developments like the Selby diversion and the Channel Tunnel rail link).
Glenfinnan is also famous as the point where Bonny Price Charlie landed when attempting to claim the throne in 1745.
Shots of wild lake scenery in the Potter films are likely to be in the West Highlsnds - Loch Eil or Loch Shiel or somewhere like that. In the first two films Hagrid's cabin was built in or near the grounds of Leavesden Studios near London, but for the third film it was rebuilt in Glencoe.