An interesting thought!

[BumbleB]

An article on today's BBC website related to a marriage taking place on a moving train between London and Swansea - where would it be registered? 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-68517210

Doh    It will depend wherever the Registrar is based, won't it?

[KGarrad]

The ceremony was performed by a Railway Chaplain, between London and Reading.

The present-day Railway Mission is a care provider to the rail industry and British Transport Police through the provision of the National Rail Chaplaincy Service (NRCS). Operating in partnership with London City Mission, the Railway Mission is the principal partner in the NRCS which provides around 25 mainly full-time chaplains to the railways, enabling pastoral care across the whole of the mainland UK railway network.

[AntonyMMM]

It was a "ceremony", it won't be registered anywhere.

(there will be a visit to a registration office for the actual legal marriage before or after - same as for many who "marry" on beaches or in various far-flung overseas destinations. As a registrar I did loads of those).

[BumbleB]

Many thanks to you both - very interesting.

[ThrelfallYorky]

I've always been amused at over complicated wedding ceremonies and venues, having been quietly married in our parish church and walking round the corner to the reception. Also amused at people "renewing their vows" -often when they were originally married in registry offices.
A delightful little girl, telling me about a nice new dress she was getting for her parents doing this, asked me if we (OH and I ) had renewed our vows. Not thinking really, I replied "Never needed to, we haven't broken them..." Ooops. Ah well.
TY

[BumbleB]

60 years ago, OH and I went to the local Register Office and asked when we could get married.  We were offered the choice of a marriage by License which we refused, and were advised 3 weeks on Saturday.  We accepted.  No regrets from either of us.

[MollyC]

In 1877 a gt. gt. aunt was married in Axbridge registration district - although they were both from Sheffield.  I checked obvious indexes, didn't spend money on a certificate.  Eventually I found it as a newspaper announcement, in the weekly paper for Weston super Mare.  In a baptist chapel.  No baptist connections in the family, their children were baptised in the C. of E.

I decided it was the Victorian equivalent of a far-flung destination.

[jc26red]

I have three daughters.

1 married in Florida
2 married in Vegas
3 planned her marriage in Hampshire, but then got a job abroad which required her and her fiancée to be married. A quick registry office wedding followed with her planned wedding turning into a ceremony blessing a year later!

All 3 married within 3 months of each other and we were living in the Middle East at the time!
Makes interesting reading in the FH program. Looking back our lives haven’t been the norm 🤣

[Erato]

"the National Rail Chaplaincy Service (NRCS)"

Huh?  Why on earth are chaplains needed on trains?