Trivia: Most pieces of luggage for one person on a train

[pnepaul]

Today, at Glasgow Central as I waited for my train to Carlisle, the gentleman in front of me had 6 suitcases! 5 large and one small. At first, I thought it was a family group, but I was wrong. I wonder if anyone can beat that?

It was interesting watching him board the train, he declined my offer of help lol.

 

[Bletchleyite]

Best I've seen is a fully loaded chest of drawers being loaded into the cycle area of a 150 heading to Blackpool at Preston. Guess that's only one piece though.

 

[YorksLad12]

Today, at Glasgow Central as I waited for my train to Carlisle, the gentleman in front of me had 6 suitcases! 5 large and one small. At first, I thought it was a family group, but I was wrong. I wonder if anyone can beat that?

It was interesting watching him board the train, he declined my offer of help lol.

Isn't that what the porter is there for? ( )

Every time I see someone with those really huge suitcases, I want to ask if they've chopped up their wife/husband and stuffed them in there... But never seen one person with more that two 'suit'cases before, even on airport services.

 

[Bill57p9]

Ok only one large item, however I once bought a 4 aspect colour light signal head from Collectors Corner and took it home on the train.

 

[APT618S]

A couple of years or so ago somebody boarded the London Underground train I was on with a fully laden Porters trolley. Perhaps only 3 or 4 cases but fairly large and looked to be a fair weight !

 

[Jimini]

About 15 years or so ago, I got on the westbound Jubilee line at Canary Wharf at about 5:40pm with one of these bad boys. Can confirm I was not a popular man!

(Image shows person with enormous roll of bubble wrap, 1.5m in width.)

 

[trebor79]

There was a young lady waiting for a train in the bar at Grantham a few years ago. She had the most enormous suitcase I've ever seen, and 2 other fairly sizeable ones.
She asked the bar staff where the toilet was, then struggled out with the whole shooting match, returning a few minutes later. I'm not sure how she got them all in the cubicke, it why she didn't just ask the bar staff to keep an eye on them for her!

Seemed a nice girl, she smiled at me and asked if I wanted the sit with her. For some reason I declined .

 

[fodphil]

Backn in the 80s, i put my motorbike on the train at Crewe back to Wigan

 

[weepingwillowb]

There was a young lady waiting for a train in the bar at Grantham a few years ago. She had the most enormous suitcase I've ever seen, and 2 other fairly sizeable ones.
She asked the bar staff where the toilet was, then struggled out with the whole shooting match, returning a few minutes later. I'm not sure how she got them all in the cubicke, it why she didn't just ask the bar staff to keep an eye on them for her!

Seemed a nice girl, she smiled at me and asked if I wanted the sit with her. For some reason I declined .

Grantham, eh? That's the place (not at the station) the police stopped me in the street early one Friday evening and asked me if I'd like to take part in an identification parade the next morning.

 

[Royston Vasey]

I was on a late evening TPE 158 at P11 at York in 1999 or 2000 which was delayed several minutes by a large family of heavily laden Hasidim emerging from the subway. There must have been at least ten of them, all male, frantically attempting to load more suitcases than I've ever seen outside of an airport. At least twenty cases of various sizes, plus hat boxes and other smaller bags and tied parcels. The young boys of the family formed a human chain up the steps literally throwing suitcase after suitcase into a pile at least 6 feet high and wide.

I think we left 10 or so late, the staff managing to accommodate them all with their bags somehow in the first car.

In my mind's eye there was an old fashioned standard lamp in the pile as well but that may be my mind charicaturing the faintly ridiculous scene!

 

[ASharpe]

Outside the UK but Amtrac were overly heplful when I moved from Newhaven CT to Richmond VA. Dropped of several boxes but had to buy one for my bike and it all got transported ahead of me and they were happy for me to pick it up the day after arrival.

 

[MrJeeves]

I once lugged an office chair from Canary Wharf on the Elizabeth Line and Thameslink towards Brighton. I think that's the worst I've ever done!

 

[dk1]

We used to have a regular ‘Alf the purse king’ who worked on Yarmouth market and a shop near the seafront. He would travel to Whitechapel weekly and move a BRUTE at least load of stock. He tipped extremely well so BR staff where keen to help but never charged him a fee on his journey back from Liverpool Street.

 

[Dr Hoo]

I acted as a ‘roadie’, shifting a disco from Beeston to Birmingham New Street with a change at Derby after the van broke down. Definitely in the ‘BRUTE-full’ category. Thank goodness for DMU brake vans. At New Street they actually got the DJ and I a BRUTE to take the kit from the platform to the pick-up area where we had managed to rustle up some local transport.
So many boxes of singles, decks, speakers, amp, lights, cables…
That was back in about 1975.

 

[reb0118]

A young lady turned up with 38 boxed television monitors at Edinburgh Waverley once. The duty manager asked for me especially as I was one of the few who could actually issue AAA tickets.

 

[LUYMun]

I once lugged an office chair from Canary Wharf on the Elizabeth Line and Thameslink towards Brighton. I think that's the worst I've ever done!

Still must’ve been more comfy than the 700 seats

 

[MrJeeves]

Still must’ve been more comfy than the 700 seats

Oh, it was

 

[125Spotter]

The duty manager asked for me especially as I was one of the few who could actually issue AAA tickets.

Forgive my ignorance, but what's an AAA ticket?

 

[hexagon789]

Forgive my ignorance, but what's an AAA ticket?

I always thought it was 'Also Available At', but perhaps it's being used in a different context here.

 

[philjo]

Not the same thing, but a group obviously doing Duke of Edinburgh award boarded the Carlisle train last year at Leeds and promptly filled a section of the front coach with their large rucksacks. Stacked high on the seats/tables. It was a bit of a performance them identifying their bags and emptying the coach when they alighted at Horton in Ribblesdale.

 

[Dr Hoo]

I always thought it was 'Also Available At', but perhaps it's being used in a different context here.

Accompanied Animals & Articles.

Confusing that booking offices had to do both AAAs.

 

[The exile]

I once got an IKEA Billy bookcase (the 6ft high version) with shelves home on an Essen tram.

 

[hexagon789]

Accompanied Animals & Articles.

Confusing that booking offices had to do both AAAs.

Thank you. The other version I quoted didn't seem to fit, so that alternative acronym makes rather more sense!

 

[Thames99]

Not a train, but a group of people got on a bus in Baden Baden, Germany through the centre doors with various instruments including a drum kit mounted on a trolley. I assume they were off busking in the town centre. All of the passengers and the driver seemed very relaxed about it.

 

[Shimbleshanks]

I once got an IKEA Billy bookcase (the 6ft high version) with shelves home on an Essen tram.

The Ampere Way stop on Croydon Tramlink is a good place if you want to spot people taking unfeasibly large items on public transport. It's the nearest stop to Ikea and B&Q.

 

[gordonthemoron]

Early 1990s, I ran into Frank Carson on Peterborough station, he was on his way to Cleethorpes for a show, he had 25 suitcases, fortunately he knew the station staff who helped him load them onto the direct train

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Not the same thing, but a group obviously doing Duke of Edinburgh award boarded the Carlisle train last year at Leeds and promptly filled a section of the front coach with their large rucksacks. Stacked high on the seats/tables. It was a bit of a performance them identifying their bags and emptying the coach when they alighted at Horton in Ribblesdale.

Might just have been doing the 'Yorkshire Three Peaks' challenge. 24+ mile circular walk to be done in 12 hours.

 

[mike57]

I have related this before, but back in the early 80s I carried a large piece of solid Mahogany, well over 5ft long, and about 10"x5", it weighed a ton. With the help of a friend I negotiated the tube from Old Street to Kings Cross. When I went to join my train north at Kings Cross the guard said "Would you like to put that in here", pointing to the large van space at the rear of Inter City 125 power cars. Needless to say I took him up on the offer. The last piece was actually turned into some feature uplighters on my wood turning lathe two Christmases ago. To be fair apart from a small ruck sack that was my only other 'luggage'.

 

[Skiddaw]

Early 1990s, I ran into Frank Carson on Peterborough station, he was on his way to Cleethorpes for a show, he had 25 suitcases, fortunately he knew the station staff who helped him load them onto the direct train

A bit off-topic, but I have a photo of me sitting on Frank Carson's knee at Pwllheli Butlins in 1969 (I was 5). You'd never get away with it now would you?

 

[greyman42]

I have seen someone who was literary moving house on a LNER service departing York. They seem to have everything but the settee with them, including a large unboxed telly. The guard was very unhappy about it as they had completely blocked the vest end.
Just the other day i saw a young woman trying to board a York to London stopper with a bike and one of those buggies attached to the back of the bike that small children sit in. The buggie was actually loaded to overflowing with cases, bags, buckets etc. She looked the Glastonbury type. She was refused travel.