The Nottingham based Barbershop style singers entertained passengers taking the Santa Specials at Loughborough Central station on Saturday. With the choir assembled to face the departure platform, GCR customers were then treated to a range of festive songs, chosen to suit the occasion.
The chorus, which began at a secondary school in the city in
1992, has grown to become a substantial choir of about 70 members, renowned both
regionally and nationally, as a result of success in competitions at home and
abroad. Success has led to participation at a series of world championships in
the USA over recent years. They are currently fund raising for their next such venture,
to Kansas City, next year. You can check them out at lacecitychorus.org
On Saturday, however, they met with some noisy competition from Standard Class 9F No. 92214, warming up nicely for her trip up the line with Father Christmas. The LNER teak baggage car was at the rear of the formation, presumably packed with prezzies and mince pies. No. 92214 carries an 82F Bath Green Park shed plate. She first arrived on the old S&DJR in summer 1964 to assist with holiday excursions over the line, and is believed to be the last 9F to operate between Bath and Bournemouth. After a somewhat competitive bout of letting off steam from her safety valves and cylinder cocks, the BR Standard survivor, now a resident at the GCR, eventually made way for the choir to take centre stage once again.
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