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Originally Posted by jokergirl
Hogwarts needs not to be half a trainride north from London; considering the train starts from a platform hidden inside a pillar, it could be anywhere (that passage is obviously some dimensional gate or at least a "magic" beaming device  )
Here's pretending not to have read the books 
jokergirl |
In fact the station used as Hogwarts was Goathland, it's in the North Yorkshire Moors.
It has also been used for All Creatures Great and Small, Heartbeat, Poirot and Sherlock Holmes.
it's on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, it runs from Pickering on the south of the moors and follows Newtondale across the moors to Goathland where, after passing the summit it descends down a 1 in 49 grade along the valley side to Grosmont its northern terminus.
While they have a shed full of their own steam the loco used in the film was a Great Western 4-6-0 imported for the filming.
Goathland is used in a lot of period films as it hasn't changed since tit was built by the victorians, it has all it's original North Eastern Railway slotted post signals and interiors.
I live just over the moors and visit quite a lot.
Unfortunately the village of Goathland itself is a nightmare since it became 'Aidesnfield' the setting of the popular 'heartbeat' drama set in the 60s. On a typical summer weekend there are around 40 coachloads of visitors swarming all over.
Notable features of the line include the aforementioned grade, the worlds oldest purpose built railway tunnel and an embankment 'floating' across a swamp, the line deflects by up to 4 inches as a train passes over.
http://www.nymr.demon.co.uk/main/home_1.htm