Great Western Railway 4-6-0 No. 4920 'Hogwarts Castle' ('Dumbleton Hall')
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 		Location: Harry Potter Studio Tour
Status: Display
Posted: Apr 7, 2023 @ 10:04:31 by Russell Newman
The ex GWR Hall Class 4-6-0 No. 4920 "Hogwarts Castle" ("Dumbleton Hall") has arrived safely at its new home at the Harry Potter Studio Tour in Tokyo, Japan for display as the Hogwarts Express in a set up of Kings Cross Station there like her sister No. 5972 "Olton Hall" on loan to the Warner Brothers Studio tour at Leavesden in the UK from West Coast Railway Company. The Harry Potter Studio Tour in Tokyo, Japan is due to open to the public on the 16th of June 2023.
Posted: Jan 15, 2022 @ 09:01:41 by Russell Newman
Some new information has come to light on former GWR Hall Class 4-6-0 No. 4920 "Hogwarts Castle" ("Dumbleton Hall") as the locomotive is still owned by the head of West Coast Railway Company in the UK and the move to Tokyo, Japan is a long term loan to Warner Bros who have hired the locomotive for display at the new Harry Potter Studio Tour there in that part of the world. Although No. 4920 will be sadly missed in the UK but at least she will reprisent the best of british steam locomotives of the Great Western Railway and the UK on the other side of the world.
Posted: Jan 5, 2022 @ 12:01:01 by Russell Newman
No. 4920 "Dumbleton Hall" has taken a very unusual path in preservation as the locomotive has now left the UK. No. 4920 has had a cosmetic reastoration carried out Carnforth and has been painted in red livery as the Hogwarts Express and it has been announced that the former Great Western Railway Hall Class 4-6-0 has been sold to Warner Bros for preservation as a static exibit in Japan. The locomotive and two former BR MkI Coaches left Carnforth for Southampton Docks a week before Christmas 2021 to be loaded aboard a cargo ship to Japan. No. 4920 will be placed on display at the new Warner Bros Harry Potter Studio Tour at Toshimaen in Tokyo which is due to open in 2023.
Posted: Feb 26, 2021 @ 08:02:51 by Russell Newman
The ex GWR Hall Class 4-6-0 No. 4920 "Dumbleton Hall" has now left the South Devon Railway and has now relocated to its new home at West Coast Railway Company’s depot at Carnforth in Lancashire.
Posted: Jan 8, 2021 @ 12:01:09 by Russell Newman
Its been unveiled that GWR Hall Class 4-6-0 No. 4920 "Dumbleton Hall" has been sold to the head of West Coast Railway Company and could see a future on the mainline? No. 4920 will be moving North to its new home to West Coast Railway Company’s depot at the former Steamtown Centre at Carnforth in Lancashire in the early part of 2021. There it will join sister GWR Hall Class the famous No. 5972 "Olton Hall" there.
Posted: Dec 21, 2020 @ 13:12:14 by Russell Newman
It has been announced that GWR Hall Class 4-6-0 No. 4920 "Dumbleton Hall" has been sold by the South Devon Railway and the Dumbleton Hall Preservation Society to a private owner. The locomotive will be leaving the South Devon Railway and moving to its new home in the New Year.
Posted: Jul 20, 2007 @ 06:07:49 by Andrew Wilson
One of Collett’s “Hall” class 2 cylinder 4-6-0s for general express passenger work, 4920, “Dumbleton Hall” was built in 1929 and named after a stately home near Evesham, Worcestershire. She was stationed at Reading and later at Oxford from whence she was retired in 1965. After a lengthy stay in Barry scrap yard she was restored in 1974 and now is based on the South Devon Railway. At present she is out of service awaiting overhaul. 18th July 2007