How to transport camping gear on public transport?

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Ds and I are going camping in a few weeks. We're travelling on public transport and I'm thinking we might need some sort of trolley to make it a bit easier to get our camping stuff around. Any recommendations?

We're camping at a friend's farm so won't need to take everything but there is still a fair amount!!

What are you taking? Do you need cooking things as well? Are you taking a tent or roughing it in bivvy bags? If you are travelling on public transport you will probably have to go up and down stairs. Sorry if this just repeats all the things you have already thought about! I would probably take a rucksack and a trolley of some sort. Bigger wheels get over rough ground more easily than smaller wheels.

when i was a student we always used public transport and just had a rucksack each and tied everything at the bottom - really cheesey but it worked! we had one gaz ring, a fold up cooking set inc kettle, two sleeping rolls and sleeping bags plus really small tent.
it was fab and we walked/bussed everywhere. Once camped for 5 weeks in west country hitching and walking.

ahh sweet memories!

and my sister always uses plane/train to camp in europe so she only books campsites you can get a bus/train to. They each have stuff hanging off rucksacks, and she has two kids, done it for year!

A good big rucksack always does the job for me, and a smaller one for DS. We go camping all the time on public transport.

We clip stuff to the outside of the rucksacks with carabiners too

Thanks for the replies!

We'll have a tent, 2 mats (which look as big as, but nowhere near the weight of, the tent), 2 sleeping bags, clothes etc. I have got a gas ring but not sure whether we'll need to take it as there will be a few other campers traveling by car who'll probably have enough for us to borrow.

The tent and mats are quite long and thin and I'm not sure I'd be able to attach them to anything. I was also thinking about borrowing my friend's shopper bag on wheels to see how much of my stuff I could fit in!