{"id":217906,"date":"2025-10-22T13:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/217906\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T13:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:10:07","slug":"harry-potter-locomotive-loaned-to-bluebell-railway-for-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/217906\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter locomotive loaned to Bluebell Railway for Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wightwick Hall was built at Swindon Works in 1948 and was withdrawn from service in 1964.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1jwznl8d45o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">salvaged from a scrapyard in Barry Island, South Wales<\/a>, in 1978, and volunteers have been restoring it at the railway centre near the village of Quainton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has just finished filming scenes for the Harry Potter series, due for release in 2027, at the Windsor Estate in Berkshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These are very expensive machines to put back together again and it took tens of years to do it,&#8221; explained John Hatton, who helped raise funds for the restoration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said it costs in the region of \u00a3300,000, every 10 years, to keep it on the tracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wightwick Hall was built at Swindon Works in 1948 and was withdrawn from service in 1964. But it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-217906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}