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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Olivia Williams

Moment singing train conductor makes bride-to-be's day on train to Liverpool

This is the moment a singing train conductor made the "brilliant start" to a bride-to-be's hen do.

Fran Evans, from South Wales, captured the moment Transport for Wales train conductor, Chris Edwards broke into a song for bride-to-be Rebecca with its own special Liverpool twist. The train conductor has become a sensation with train passengers over the years.

The ECHO's sister publication WalesOnline reported back in 2019, how Chris had written around 70 songs. The songs can be applied to each station stop, and some about the train service in general, to the tunes of some of very well-known songs.

Fran and her friends were also in for a treat as Chris sang a special song about Liverpool to the tune of Tom Jones's "It's Not Unusual". The train conductor changed the words to: "You're on a hen do and they have asked me to sing for you, so I am going to do my bestest, which station are you going to end at? I will do it in the sense of that. Ready?"

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"It's our next station stop and it's Liverpool, you know. And if you're leaving here, keep your tickets in your hands. This is Liverpool hope you have a super time.

"It's not unusual, it happens all the time. Liverpool party time, we hope you have a special day." Fran and her friends clapped along to the song and said it was a "brilliant start" to their trip to the city.

The 34-year-old said the group of 18 were not meant to get the train Chris was on but were moved. Fran said how this was "lucky" as they would not have encountered the train conductor.

She told the ECHO: "someone came on and we had to get off that train to get to another. It was lucky that happened because we are then on the train with the conductor and he sings a song at every stop we were going he was singing over the tannoy.

"My friend then asked the conductor if he would sing for the bride-to-be and he came up to the bride-to-be and she had to chose between two songs and then."

She added: "It was a brilliant start to the hen do, it was absolutely fantastic [the bride-to-be] was chuffed to bits "The passengers were loving it as well and obviously the hens as well, there were 18 of us.

"It was a great start it really was. We loved Liverpool after that, it was brilliant."

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