Guns of a Train (not a Samual Jackson Film)

[Tower75]

:-P Yeah, it's probably a bad idea. Which annoys me. Americans can carry CCW - mines not even going to be loaded. And even if I wanted to it'll take me 5 minutes to load the damn thing.

Sigh... such is life. :?

[Robin128]

Common sense has little to do with law nowadays.

:(

[mr smith]

A friend of mine does it slightly less descretely, he is a Napoleonic re-enactor, so he goes in full kit but with his bess covered up

Spotted a guy dressed up like something out of Sharpe in Glasgow queen street station carrying a hard gun case.Not often you see a strange sight in Glasgow.

[Tower75]

Well. I emailed my local service provider, National Express East Anglia, and got this reply:

Dear Mr Thompson,

Thank you for your recent email.

Providing the ammunition is carried separately and safely without being on show to other train users and the gun is cased we have no problem with you taking these items on our services.

Once again, thank you for contacting us.

Yours sincerely,
Shirley Block
Customer Relations Advisor
National Express East Anglia

I assume she means separate from the firearm - but I've asked just to make sure.

[mr smith]

Well. I emailed my local service provider, National Express East Anglia, and got this reply:

Dear Mr Thompson,

Thank you for your recent email.

Providing the ammunition is carried separately and safely without being on show to other train users and the gun is cased we have no problem with you taking these items on our services.

Once again, thank you for contacting us.

Yours sincerely,
Shirley Block
Customer Relations Advisor
National Express East Anglia

I assume she means separate from the firearm - but I've asked just to make sure.

I would print that off just in case.

[Robin128]

Ask for a copy of their current T&Cs...to be sure.

An Email is so insecure and a Customer Relations Advisor may be one up from the little girl that licks the stamps.

[mr smith]

Ask for a copy of their current T&Cs...to be sure.

An Email is so insecure and a Customer Relations Advisor may be one up from the little girl that licks the stamps.

Still gives someone to point the finger at.I've worked on the railway for twenty five years now and couldn't tell you my companies rules on this.

[Steve]

You'd think with the recent riots train operators would appreciate someone riding shotgun in their carriages. :lol:

[Robin128]

Anyone remember the Original London Armoury...Old Kent Road...Elephant and Castle stop???

There was an old boy I think running the place...haled from Dowlais...can't remember his name...Tom Collins???

Anyway, back in the 70s I bought a Uberti Remington 44 revolver...blue. He wrapped it up in some newspaper and put it in a carrier bag. Now this was 40 odd years ago and God was still a boy. I waltzed this thru London and got on the Swansea train at Paddington. Well what was I to do with it?? So on the table it went with FAC underneath it. One really couldn't mistake it.

So the train filled up and a chap sat opposite me and we started a conversation.

He got off at Reading...he was a copper FFS! He'd worked out what it was.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Try doing that now...and I suspect you would get a sh1t storm from the BTP.

[Porcupine]

In Switzerland I carried my 552 SP over my shoulder unslipped on the train. Nobody bats an eye except one fellow who started speaking to me to compliment me on my weapon and laughed when I struggled to reply in broken German, realizing I was English. Had to be unloaded but I had a mag holder on the rails so it was dead quick to get running.