When you get to King's Cross, follow signs for Platforms 9 to 11

Platform 9 3/4. Sorry forgot the link.

http://www.crypto.com/photos/misc/platform9.75.html



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When you get to King's Cross, follow signs for Platforms 9 to 11

Platform 9 3/4. Sorry forgot the link.

http://www.crypto.com/photos/misc/platform9.75.html

Isn't there now a luggage trolley on its way through to the platform?
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David Biddulph

On 10 Feb, 17:06, "David Biddulph" groups [at] biddulph.org.uk
wrote:

Isn't there now a luggage trolley on its way through to the platform?

Yes, which is now badly dented - either through vandalism or something
else hitting it.

Not sure what that website was going on about, suggesting the platform
9 3/4 could have been there before the book!!

Jonathan

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(jonmorris) wrote:

On 10 Feb, 17:06, "David Biddulph" groups [at] biddulph.org.uk
wrote:

Isn't there now a luggage trolley on its way through to the
platform?

Yes, which is now badly dented - either through vandalism or
something else hitting it.

Not sure what that website was going on about, suggesting the
platform 9 3/4 could have been there before the book!!

Don't be silly!

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On 11 Feb, 00:07, (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:
In article
,

(jonmorris) wrote:
On 10 Feb, 17:06, "David Biddulph" groups [at] biddulph.org.uk
wrote:

Isn't there now a luggage trolley on its way through to the
platform?

Yes, which is now badly dented - either through vandalism or
something else hitting it.

Not sure what that website was going on about, suggesting the
platform 9 3/4 could have been there before the book!!

Don't be silly!

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Quite - it's always been there! The trolley is damaged because the
person pushing it was a Muggle porter and hence could not enter, so it
crashed against the wall - however there was a young wizard sat atop
their case on the front of the trolley, and so that end of the trolley
did pass through the entrance. The prefects found this situation of
the trolley stuck in the entrance somewhat whimsical and so it has
stayed as it is, confounding the likes of Mr Morris and leading them
to dream up outlandish, pedestrian explanations for its presence...

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,
jonmorris writes
On 10 Feb, 17:06, "David Biddulph" groups [at] biddulph.org.uk
wrote:

Isn't there now a luggage trolley on its way through to the platform?

Yes, which is now badly dented - either through vandalism or something
else hitting it.

Not sure what that website was going on about, suggesting the platform
9 3/4 could have been there before the book!!

I've heard a story, second hand and from a "Non Railway" person, which I
didn't fully understand, that there was once a station *somewhere* (not
KC) which had a Platform 9 3/4 and that that was the inspiration for JK
Rowling.

Anyone else here know?
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:20:10 +0000, Ian Jelf
wrote:

In message
,
jonmorris writes
On 10 Feb, 17:06, "David Biddulph" groups [at] biddulph.org.uk
wrote:

Isn't there now a luggage trolley on its way through to the platform?

Yes, which is now badly dented - either through vandalism or something
else hitting it.

Not sure what that website was going on about, suggesting the platform
9 3/4 could have been there before the book!!

I've heard a story, second hand and from a "Non Railway" person, which I
didn't fully understand, that there was once a station *somewhere* (not
KC) which had a Platform 9 3/4 and that that was the inspiration for JK
Rowling.

Anyone else here know?

No, but I do recall reading that, when she started writing about Kings
Cross, she was actually thinking of Euston.

On 11 Feb., 13:31, Mike Roebuck wrote:
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:20:10 +0000, Ian Jelf





wrote:
In message
,
jonmorris writes
On 10 Feb, 17:06, "David Biddulph" groups [at] biddulph.org.uk
wrote:

Isn't there now a luggage trolley on its way through to the platform?

Yes, which is now badly dented - either through vandalism or something
else hitting it.

Not sure what that website was going on about, suggesting the platform
9 3/4 could have been there before the book!!

I've heard a story, second hand and from a "Non Railway" person, which I
didn't fully understand, that there was once a station *somewhere* (not
KC) which had a Platform 9 3/4 and that that was the inspiration for JK
Rowling.

Anyone else here know?

No, but I do recall reading that, when she started writing about Kings
Cross, she was actually thinking of Euston.- Zitierten Text ausblenden -

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they are so similar I suppose

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06:12:27 on Wed, 13 Feb 2008, remarked:
No, but I do recall reading that, when she started writing about Kings
Cross, she was actually thinking of Euston.

they are so similar I suppose

Both being stations you end up in London at, if you start your journey
in Edinburgh.
--
Roland Perry

Ian Jelf wrote:

I've heard a story, second hand and from a "Non Railway" person,
which I didn't fully understand, that there was once a station
*somewhere* (not KC) which had a Platform 9 3/4 and that that was the
inspiration for JK Rowling.

Anyone else here know?

I don't, but there are quite a few houses around which have half-numbers.
I've never seen a three-quarters though.

There are bound to be some platform signs which bear a three and a four,
possibly with a slash between them. (I've seen a sign in a hospital marked
"Wards e1-e10", which has "Old McDonald had a farm" graffitied on it.)