Railway Inn
19 Audley RoadAlsager
ST7 2QL
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The Railway has three distinct areas inside with outside seating at the front and in a beer garden to the rear. The pub has a mix of wood and tiled flooring, unpretentious furniture and railway memorabilia decorates the walls inside and out. There are 8 handpumps but normally only 4 or 5 are in use serving a changing selection of national and local beers. Victorian in origin, the name was changed to the Yeoman in the 1960's. Bought from a pubco in early 2014 by Reclamation Inns Limited, a small company based in Stafford. They owned two other pubs, the Black Boy Inn, in Bridgnorth and the Great Western in Bewdley (all three pubs sold to Red Oak Taverns in January 2021). Pride of place amongst the memorabilia in the Railway is an original 1900 mural, signed by “F. R. Ford” depicting a stylized Midlands Railway 4-2-2 steam locomotive, possibly a 115 class. Nicknamed "Spinners" because of the large single driving wheel, they were designed by Samuel Waite Johnson and a total of 15 of the class were built between 1896 and 1899. The pub sign is also worthy of note, being a painting of LMS Royal Scot class, 4-6-0 locomotive 6137, “Vesta”, built in 1927 and scrapped at Crewe in May 1963.