Steam Gala<\/a>, running between April 17 and 19.\n<\/p>\n\n The Great Western Railway (GWR) locomotive was built at Swindon Works in 1948, working trains in the Gloucester and Hereford areas until it was withdrawn in June 1964.\n<\/p>\n
\n It was then sold to the Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, before returning to steam in 2018 after a 40-year restoration.\n<\/p>\n
\n In line with the original Hogwarts Express train used in the Harry Potter films, the series locomotive was repainted red for its role.\n<\/p>\n
\n The locomotive used for the films was also a GWR Hall class, rescued from Woodham Brothers scrapyard, but is no longer in use and instead displayed at Warner Bros. Studio Tour, in Leavesden.\n<\/p>\n
\n Epping Ongar Railway’s steam gala has a “Great Western workhorses” theme, with an unmodified GWR Hall class locomotive joining the Hogwarts Express.\n<\/p>\n
\n During the event, all trains will be running alongside the railway’s fleet of vintage London buses to provide connections with Ongar, North Weald, Epping Underground and Shenfield stations.\n<\/p>\n
\n There will also be footplate rides available, allowing train enthusiasts to join the crew where the locomotive is operated from.\n<\/p>\n
\n Tickets are available on the Epping Ongar Railway website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The steam locomotive 6989 ‘Wightwick Hall’, which stars in the upcoming Harry Potter TV series, will visit the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-413199","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\/413199","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=413199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}