Date: 03/08/2009

A Lancaster man has been jailed for a year after carrying out thefts at the home of Harry Potter's Hogwarts Express.
Neal Currie, together with three accomplices from Lancashire and Manchester, targeted the Steamtown depot, near Carnforth, where the locomotive used in the Harry Potter films is housed.

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