Firearms on Trains
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Windymiller
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Thanks All.
I have spoken with TPE this morning and they have okayed it.
I had to let them know seat number booked and confirmed bolt and ammo would be in separate bag/box to firearms. They also suggested i shouldn't tell any other passengers what i have in my big plastic box!
I would suggest to anyone travelling or planning to travel on the train with a 'gun case' rather than guns in 'normal' bags, to check with the specific rail provider.
Tar
Sam
I have spoken with TPE this morning and they have okayed it.
I had to let them know seat number booked and confirmed bolt and ammo would be in separate bag/box to firearms. They also suggested i shouldn't tell any other passengers what i have in my big plastic box!
I would suggest to anyone travelling or planning to travel on the train with a 'gun case' rather than guns in 'normal' bags, to check with the specific rail provider.
Tar
Sam
I recall my first trip to the Highlands and waiting to board a night train with rifle in Brady slip and Puma White Hunter strapped to by belt!
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K
The original can be viewed in the York Railway Museum.
I looked at this one. The train company said to check with them before travelling, which I did.
The lady on the phone was perfectly pleasant about it and said she didn’t foresee an issue, I just needed to tell the conductor.
The difficulty was she also said it is up to the conductor on the day whether to let you get on with the gun. I pressed this for some guarantee that I wouldn’t simply be denied permission purely because of the conductor’s on view on firearms. She couldn’t give me that and said it is their discretion.
I decided that wasn’t a risk I could take, spending North of £100 on a ticket only to be told I can’t board because the conductor disagrees with shooting. I just broke the gun down, put it in a suitcase and sat next to it.
@Apthorpe is correct, these are just their terms of carriage. They can boot you off the train for breaking them, but it’s not an offence.
The lady on the phone was perfectly pleasant about it and said she didn’t foresee an issue, I just needed to tell the conductor.
The difficulty was she also said it is up to the conductor on the day whether to let you get on with the gun. I pressed this for some guarantee that I wouldn’t simply be denied permission purely because of the conductor’s on view on firearms. She couldn’t give me that and said it is their discretion.
I decided that wasn’t a risk I could take, spending North of £100 on a ticket only to be told I can’t board because the conductor disagrees with shooting. I just broke the gun down, put it in a suitcase and sat next to it.
@Apthorpe is correct, these are just their terms of carriage. They can boot you off the train for breaking them, but it’s not an offence.
enfieldspares
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I had the late and IMHO great Steve Parton of fly fishing rod making fame make me up a bright red rectangular over cover from ripstop type fabric. With zipper, black reinforcing and handles from black seat belt type webbing. So in effect hiding in plain sight it looks like a bag with a electronic keyboard, or surveyor's levelling equipment, cheap croquet set or whatever else inside that the casual eye believes it to be. I once had a taxi driver ask me what was in the heavyish stout taped cardboard box I had acquired at a well known auction is Sussex and told him it was a Lanchester cylinder head. It was a Lanchester except but not a cylinder head!
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MAH
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Buy yourself a second hand snowboard bag.
Put your rifle in its hard case, and that in the SB bag.
Being discrete helps avoid drama.
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badmolassesaccident
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Long train journeys: what do you do with your firearm when you go to the toilet?
badmolassesaccident
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You are not alone. I’d say a high percentage of guitar cases you see walking around have guns in them.
Morkai
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Take it with you?
The toilets on trains are huge.
What do you do with the rest of your luggage?
badmolassesaccident
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Lock the case to the rack with a chain, like the bike theft protection.
BTW, years ago I was travelling by train from my place to an airport fro a stalking trip. When I placed my rifle case (rectangular, with aluminum braces) I lady asked me whether it was a musical instrument.
"No Madam - I answered- it'an instrument but not musical". She looked puzzled, but remained silent.
Doesn’t matter as they hardly ever run anyway
Go to the toilet between stations. Unless you think someone will guess that your bag contains a gun, steal it and jump out of a moving train with it? In which case one may be so anally retentive not to ever need a crap when travelling anyway.
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