Beer Gardens To Watch Trains

[cuccir]

I used to go there years ago, it was a reet flea pit along with The Station Hotel! If its owned by the folk who own The Head of Steam then it might be worth a look...hopefully there will be a canny collection of ales and foreign stuff!

It was taken over and renovated a year or so ago. Like some of the other Head of Steam places, it's got quite a few bit of railway memorabilia etc.

 

[DiscoStu]

The pub next to the line at Barnetby is really good. Well, it used to be about 25 years ago ... dunno if it's still there now (I was only eleven). I remember going there spotting with the old man when I was a kid.

Shed loads of freight trains at all hours of the day.

 

[Anon Mouse]

It was taken over and renovated a year or so ago. Like some of the other Head of Steam places, it's got quite a few bit of railway memorabilia etc.

Sounds good, i'm tempted for a trip there now actually!

 

[87015]

Wetherspoons at New Barnet with full view of ECML traffic. If its Not New Barnet its one of the shacks around there... Signal box diagrams and a few other bits inside as well.

 

[Anon Mouse]

Theres a great bar on Makkasan Station in Bangkok, right on platform....maybe a bit far to nip for a beer though!

 

[Ferret]

The pub next to the line at Barnetby is really good. Well, it used to be about 25 years ago ... dunno if it's still there now (I was only eleven). I remember going there spotting with the old man when I was a kid.

Shed loads of freight trains at all hours of the day.

And really crap beer last time I went in. It was atrocious. Avoid avoid avoid!

 

[yorksrob]

The garden at the Tickled Trout in Wye is rather nice to watch the trains go by on a summers day.

Also, a shout out to the Barnes Wallace in Howden. The trains aren't so easy to see because of the vegetation, but I always enjoy listening to the level crossing sirens and the trains speeding by. Also it's a lovely pub with nice ale.

 

[b0b]

I used to enjoy picnics in Sydney Gardens, Bath, but I believe they fenced it off

 

[table38]

Not a beer garden as such but the pub on the station at Stalybridge seems to use the platform as one!

Sadly we have been evicted off the platform into the car park, I suspect more because of people smoking on the platform rather than drinking

 

[Anon Mouse]

^ but too be fair you can watch the trains from the car park or from inside the pub. Sadly I think its the 'rail ale trail' yobs that have spoilt it for everyone and who incidently don't drink ale!

 

[RichmondCommu]

Beer garden of The station Inn at Ribblehead Best Beer garden by far on a nice day.

Agreed that it's a fantastic location and its a lovely pub too with great beers. However, due to it's exposed position nice days are few and far between!
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^ but too be fair you can watch the trains from the car park or from inside the pub. Sadly I think its the 'rail ale trail' yobs that have spoilt it for everyone and who incidently don't drink ale!

Are there benches in the car park i.e. somewhere to sit down?

 

[Anon Mouse]

Are there benches in the car park i.e. somewhere to sit down?

I've got no idea to be honest, I aint been for a pint there since they stopped drinking on the platform

 

[johnnychips]

I've got no idea to be honest, I aint been for a pint there since they stopped drinking on the platform

One picnic bench. (In December)

 

[ryan125hst]

I just remembered the name and was coming to edit

Beat you to it!

I've walked down the cinder track that starts near The Fountain with my Grandparents a few times. We've walked to East Markham before. The problem is it's been overgrown in recent years so it's been hard to get down. Hopefully it won't be too bad this year!

For people who don't know the area, the cinder track (that's what my Grandparents call it anyway) is a path that runs by the ECML between Tuxford and East Markham. It's is right next to the line at one point, with just a small fence between the track and the path, so is good for spotting and photography.

 

[gimmea50anyday]

^ but too be fair you can watch the trains from the car park or from inside the pub. Sadly I think its the 'rail ale trail' yobs that have spoilt it for everyone and who incidently don't drink ale!

Have to agree there. The Pennines route is a brilliant real ale pub crawl that has been spoiled by idiot drinkers out to get as plastered as possible in the shortest period of time.


The metal bridge, in err... Metal Bridge! Actually it has a different name now and I can't remember it off the top of my head. It's just off the A688 2 miles eat of Spennymoor, a mile or so to the north of Ferryhill and backs onto tursdale junction on the ECML. It also has a miniature railway in the beer garden.

 

[ANorthernGuard]

Real Ale drinkers are just as bad as Lager drinkers, its the person that makes the idiot and not the drink

They need to get rid of that advertising board in front of the car park for the enthusiasts, me I like to see all the memorabilia inside, now to me thats fascinating!

 

[Anon Mouse]

Canny pub on the Platform at Bury Bolton street on the ELR

 

[bnm]

An old favourite of mine was the Victory Inn between Taunton and Wellington in Somerset. A good selection of real ales, decent food, and you get advance warning of approaching trains thanks to the adjacent AHB level crossing (which is named after said pub).

Now called the Allerford Inn. Level crossing has retained the 'Victory LC' name I believe.

 

[Peter Gl]

The first railway pub in the world, The Queens Arms, by Patricroft station on the first Manchester to Liverpool line.

Pete

 

[DarloRich]

Has no one suggested the York Tap? Get a nice seat in the bay window and away you go!

 

[wellhouse]

The Clachnaharry Inn, just north of Inverness has fine ales and fine views from a terrace overlooking the line and The Caledonian Canal sea lock

 

[PR1Berske]

Using the thread's responses to date:

*Barnet
-Wetherspoons, New Barnet

*Bedfordshire
-The Bell Inn, Sandy

*Bury, Gtr. Manchester
-Bury Bolton Street ELR station

*Cambridgeshire
-The Cutter Inn, Ely

*Devon
-Double Locks, Exeter
-The Turf, Exeter
-The Marine Tavern, Dawlish
-The Boathouse, Dawlish
-Coombe Cellars between Shaldon and Newton Abbot

*Gateshead
-The Central

*Gwynedd
-Yr Hen Orsaf

*Humberside
-Barnes Wallace, Howden

*Inverness
-The Clachnaharry Inn

*Kent
-Tickled Trout, Wye

*Lancashire
-The Continental, Preston

*Lincoln
-The Tower Bar

*Newcastle-on-Tyne
-The Telegraph, Forth Street
-The Bridge Inn
-The Centurian

*Norfolk
-The Ship Inn, Reedham
-The Rushcutters, Thorpe St. Andrew

*North Yorkshire
-The Station Inn, Ribblehead

*Northumberland
-The Boathouse, Wylam
-Adam and Eve, Prudhoe

*Nottinghamshire
-Victoria Hotel, Beeston
-The Fountain Hotel, Tuxford

*Oxfordshire
-The Bowyer's Arms, Radley
-The Tandem, Kennington

*Salford
-The Queens Arms, Patricroft station

*Somerset
-Allerford Inn (previously Victory Inn) between Taunton and Wellington

*South Staffordshire
-Codsall

*Stockport
-The Magnet, Wellington Road

*Stoke-on-Trent
-Black Lion, Consall

*Tameside
-Stalybridge station [not on the platforms]

*Trafford
-Urmston

*Wigan
-Gathurst

*York
-The York Tap, Escrick Park Gardens

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Now called the Allerford Inn. Level crossing has retained the 'Victory LC' name I believe.

Glad to hear it's still going. Thanks also for helping me recall the name of the nearby village- Allerford.

 

[gimmea50anyday]

The Metal Bridge pub I mentioned earlier is called The Poachers Pocket.

 

[ffm]

Newcastle - the CenturiOn, only see trains if you sit outside and you are not blocked by a nasty 142/can see through the gap next to the Ticket office
From the Bridge Hotel you can easily see the ECML, front windows, but you CANNOT see the trains on the High Level - well you can see the tops of their sides as you are looking straight up at it! Still all you miss is some hideous 142s
Missing from the list:
Sheffield Tap, Platform 1 Sheffield Station
Post Yard, Kings Cross
Betjeman Arms, St Pancras - Eurostars only in exterior bar

 

[Alan1310]

The mill in between Huntingdon and Brampton has a good view of the ECML good beer and food and by the river

 

[swcovas]

On the Heart Of Wales there's a beautiful garden at the Cammarch Hotel alongside Llangamarch Wells station and you can also sit outside the Cambrian at Builth Rd which was once the old Builth Rd Low Level station building. Trouble is there's just not many trains going past!

 

[gazthomas]

If we're including preserved lines I would include three of my favourites:

NYMR:

http://www.stationtavern-grosmont.co.uk/

Spa Valley Railway:

http://www.highrocks.co.uk/railway.html

East Lancs:

http://www.eastlancsrailway.org.uk/food-drink/the-trackside/

Plus the pubs at both ends of the Severn Valley Railway.

Also more tenuous, the annual diesel gala and beer festival at Harmans Cross:

http://www.swanagerailway.co.uk/n-event.htm

 

[AndyLandy]

The South Western Arms in St Denys is right next to the station, has a large beer garden adjacent to platform 4 and serves quite an extensive range of real ales.

Alas, the foliage means that you can just about see the tops of the trains that go by. :cry:

 

[Arglwydd Golau]

There is also the 'Snowdonia Park' in Waunfawr on the Welsh Highland Railway. Great pub, it has a small brewery attached and from the garden you can see.....