Are wheelbarrows/carts allowed on trains?

[londonbridge]

Surely the booking office clerk must have spotted it looking at the video.


About 5 years ago I was at London bridge and wanted the loo, rather than pay thought I'd walk up to the platform to use the free men's urinals.
To my horror it had been demolished, then I thought 'Well go on the train', then it dawned on me as the train arrived, what toilet?

One of my mates was at Manchester Piccadilly and decided for some reason to use the toilet on a random train sitting in the platform, unfortunately he didn’t check the time and it departed with him on board. Next stop Stockport. Ticket check started almost immediately, luckily the train manager just laughed and told him to jump off and get the next train back without charging him anything.

 

[gmaguire]

You see this sort of thing in places of low car ownership. I've seen similar in Hamburg.

I get that, but there are more sensible ways to transport a wardrobe which don’t involve holding up a train.

 

[Furrysquid]

I'm having some trouble parsing this. A lot of musical instruments are larger than 1m in one direction, but can be carried by one person without assistance (even a guitar ...). I presume these are permitted but it's not awfully clear. It's even less clear when you consider a BBb tuba - yes, I can carry it (but not too far), and it lives in a case with wheels on (which makes it a reasonably easy item to drag around). It'll take up a lot of room in the vestibule!

I once saw someone buying a ticket at Waterloo with two cellos, but too her credit she is carrying both of them! https://www.flickr.com/photos/30661871@N03/27162019624/in/photolist-Hods8b

Likewise, I can carry my kayak relatively easily without assistance ... well, I have to get it between the car park and the river somehow!

 

[Robert Ambler]

I once boarded a train at Glasgow Central with three colleagues and we were carrying a Class 20 Locomotive fan drive shaft between us. This was pre Pendolino days so we just put it in the van and went and sat down. When the Conductor came round doing the ticket checks I mentioned that we had a large item we had stowed in the van and that we were getting off at Crewe. He insisted I walk down with him to look at it. Having viewed it he told me there was a charge for any item more than 1 metre long. I responded that it was a good job that it was less than a metre long then. There ensued a few moments of pantomime 'yes it is'...'no it isn't'... banter between us before I relented and told him he had better measure it then. He admitted he had nothing he could measure it with. I told him I was going to sit back down but to come and find me when he had found something he could measure it with. He did not return before we lugged the shaft off the train at Crewe!

 

[stuartl]

Just had someone try to get on a London bus with a small table. About 3ft x 2ft. Driver said no.

 

[6Gman]

Just had someone try to get on a London bus with a small table. About 3ft x 2ft. Driver said no.

I was once on a bus in Exeter when somebody stopped the bus, walked into a nearby shop and came out carrying . . . a toilet, which they stowed under the stairs, and then we continued.

Mind you, he was the conductor.

 

[jackot]

I was once on a bus in Exeter when somebody stopped the bus, walked into a nearby shop and came out carrying . . . a toilet, which they stowed under the stairs, and then we continued.

Mind you, he was the conductor.

Sounds like something out of On The Buses

The worst I've seen was a guy with a 6ft Christmas Tree boarding at Liss station. That was an interesting sight, but he was allowed on.

 

[lookapigeon]

I remember seeing some wheelie bins being left on a train, the lids were locked and there was a label on the top indicating it was lost property from station X to London Waterloo.

 

[Donny_m]

Can you genuinely not take surfboards on any more? I know it’s in the rules but surely no one’s going to kick off if you’re stood in the vestibule hugging your 5ft 3-4kg surfboard? A bike is more lethal than that.

 

[popeter45]

a few years ago a mate moved house from London to Ediburgh and used the train to move stuff, stored the boxes in the DVT if i remeber correctly

 

[Bletchleyite]

Can you genuinely not take surfboards on any more? I know it’s in the rules but surely no one’s going to kick off if you’re stood in the vestibule hugging your 5ft 3-4kg surfboard? A bike is more lethal than that.

I'm not totally sure why you're not just allowed to book one on as a bike if it's no longer than one.

 

[Ediswan]

Can you genuinely not take surfboards on any more? I know it’s in the rules but surely no one’s going to kick off if you’re stood in the vestibule hugging your 5ft 3-4kg surfboard? A bike is more lethal than that.

According to the NRCoT, large furniture is prohibited. Surfboards, canoes, sailboards and large musical instruments are all at the discretion of the TOC.