Platform 9¾ is probably preferable to the middle of nowhere.
The Cluetts, a family on vacation on Scotland’s Loch Elit, were stranded when their canoe was washed away in the night by a storm. Faced with the option of trudging across several miles of boggy wetlands to return to their car, they called to see if a rescue was possible. The police responded that they’d made arrangements for a train to stop on its route near their location to pick them up. And as it just so happens, the train in question was used as the Hogwarts Express in the Harry Potter films.
The policeman said, ‘We’ve arranged for the next train passing to stop for you, and you’re not going to believe this but it’s the Hogwarts Express steam train. Your kids are going to love it.’
– Jon Cluett
Jon Cluett, his wife, and their four children (ages 6-12) got the rescue of a lifetime when the Jacobite steam train picked them up. Especially since the kids were Harry Potter fans. There was only one thing, according to Cluett, a pastor in Stirling, Scotland, that could possibly make the story better: finding the canoe.
It’s got to turn up at some point. The thing is 16-foot-long, red and floats.
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