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From the BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-40342666


What records are there of births on trains?  Did the children so born or their descendants go on to have further ralway connections?

If you were born in the middle of an ocean on a plane or boat, what would the place of birth on your passport show? ???

Most lightly to be the port or airport of departure I should think.

My Mum knew someone, from her days in the WRAF, who gave birth on a personnel/family flight from RAF Gütersloh, in West Germany, to RAF Wyton in Cambridgeshire. Parents had the option of registering the birth in either the British Consulate in Hanover or in Cambridgeshire. They chose the latter. British whatever they chose.

I myself was born in Rinteln, about 50 miles from RAF Gutersloh, where my parents were stationed. I was therefore registered at the British Consulate.

"At sea", but in the UK, if the ship or aircraft is registered here. If it isn't, presumably the rules are those of its country of registration.

Or jus sanguinnis. Nationality based on that of one's parents.

I was born in Germany but I am British.

Which demonstrates that nationality is quite different from place of birth - which may be a factor, but only in some cases. And the rules on whether and how it can have changed more than once since the happy event bignosemac refers to.

Returning to the question implied in OP, I can't see any official guidance one what "place of birth" should be registered if you are travelling within the UK, whether within a registration jurisdiction or between them. I guess in practice you go to a register office and they decide.

If you're going to be born in flight, choose you airline carefully.

From The Metro (http://metro.co.uk/2017/06/19/baby-born-during-a-jet-airways-flight-has-been-given-free-air-tickets-for-life-6719628/)

On 21 October 2002, I had a letter published in The Times:

Fruit flies in my composter can do that seemingly in the time as Redland to Temple Meads on the Severn Riviera Express.

You must be very proud!

Atlantis.   ;)

There are a number of conventions to cover babies born in international waters or airspace, but they do not have a great number of ratifying states, and different countries follow different conventions. The effect is broadly similar - a child born in no man's land/sea/air will normally assume the nationality of the parents. It will be allocated the nationality of the state of registry of the ship/aircraft only if to do otherwise would render the child stateless. The UK is a signatory to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, rarely if ever invoked. What happens if a child is born to squabbling parents of different nationalities on a plane registered to a third country, I have no idea!

Drifting off-thread, I recall a child being born on a RAF Hercules. Nationality was not in issue - the mother had entered labour with complications on a Scottish island on a night when the weather was atrocious. It was deemed essential that she should got to hospital. The only aircraft capable of evacuating her to hospital was the Hercules, and one was dispatched from RAF Lyneham (since closed) to get her. The child was born on the return leg. The pilot announced the birth to the air traffic control centre by reporting "POB is now 7" - POB being Persons On Board. It ended happily for all concerned.