The Great Central Railway (Nottingham) is gearing up to run its first Christmas trains in over 4 years, with the added surprise that the theme tune to their Christmas train rides has reached unbelievable heights in the music charts.

With just under a week to go until their first Jingle Bell Express trains start running, the song ‘Jingle Bell Express’, which accompanies the festive train rides and show on the Great Central Railway (Nottingham), has reached No.1 in the UK Children’s Music iTopChart.

iTopChart is the go-to website for the most trending songs, albums, books, audiobooks and movies that are currently popular in each country across the globe.

As part of the Apple group, the site takes information such as steaming figures and online purchases from sites like iTunes and the Apple Book Store, before compiling various lists showing which ones are the best and ranks them accordingly from 1 to 100.

The song by Nell Keene is available to buy for just 79p on iTopChart, which will no doubt prove to be popular with children, especially those who visit the Great Central Railway (Nottingham) in the run-up to Christmas.

Some tickets for the Jingle Bell Express are still available and can be booked online via the Great Central Railway Nottingham website.

The railway will welcome everyone who travels on the Jingle Bell Express, who will no doubt sing along with the UK’s top No.1 children’s song as passengers help Santa gather up enough Christmas cheer so as to power up his sleigh in this brand-new Christmas show and train ride.

2024 has been a good year for this 9-mile heritage railway, with the reinstating of its first passenger trains for the first time in 5 years.

While their long-term plan to connect with the southern half of the Great Central Railway in Loughborough has taken a big step forward through the reunification project, which saw the submission of the planning permission application to re-join to the two lines.