The renaming of ex-GWR 5972 as 'Hogwarts Castle' has become a railway preservation joke being known as "...the Hall that thinks it's a Castle." Whatever your opinion the former Olton Hall is a huge attraction at the Harry Potter World experience at Warner Bros. studios. It was particularly noticeable the interest that it seemed to hold to the many foreign visitors to the attraction but I suspect that they are unaware of it fine and long GWR heritage including a lengthy stay at Dai Woodham's infamous Barry scrapyard between 1964 and 1981.
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