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This was the moment stunned commuters were joined by a group of friends staging their Christmas party on a rush hour train to work.

Six pals hosted the bizarre bash on the 8.08 from Abergavenny to Cardiff amid bewildered passengers after deciding it was justified because they spent 40 minutes every day sharing a carriage.

Solicitor Allan Wilson, PR man Chris Lines, HR adviser Sian Grainger and RSPB men Jon Gruffydd, Jeremy Powell and Cellan Michael pulled crackers and drank booze as part of the breakfast banquet.

Father-of-four Mr Lines, who works for charity Sustain Wales, said: "As we often spend 40 minutes a day travelling to work together, we thought 'why don't we have a Christmas party?'

"We brought along Prosecco, smoked salmon and sausages and we even had paper chains on the windows and pulled crackers.

"Because there were only two carriages we were a bit cramped, so we had to sit at a table that had someone already sitting there.

"We asked him if he minded lifting up his laptop so we could put our Christmas tablecloth on.

"He looked at us as if we were crazy, but he soon got into the swing of things."

And by the time the train arrived at Cardiff Central on Friday morning, the rest of the carriage had also got into the spirit of things too.

Mr Gruffydd added: "We also shared some of our goodies with the neighbouring seats.

"It was generally appreciated and brightened up a dull early morning."

Additional reporting by the Press Association