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If you love the British pub, you will like this blog. Here I will review the pubs I drop into in my wanderings around my home region - urban, rural, posh, homely, fun pubs, restaurant pubs, and local backstreet pubs. I hope to encourage people to appreciate them.
I will score each pub out of five points each (30 points maximum) on its ambience, decor, service, whether it serves real ales, state of the toilets (but I can't vouch for the state of the gents because I don't use them!) and what extras it has - games, beer garden, newspapers, serves food, karaoke, quizzes, live music.
If after reading one of my reviews you decide to check out a pub, I hope you enjoy the experience. But bear in mind that I have only visited some of them once, and pubs and pub managers change. If the review needs updating, please leave a comment.
Ups and downs? Well, people drink when they're down. And they drink to celebrate, when they're feeling 'up'. Besides that, this is hill country. It's full of ups and downs.
(ALL PHOTOS ARE COPYRIGHT)

Saturday, 24 November 2012

The Railway, Greenfield


The Railway, Shaw Hall Bank Road, Greenfield OL3
01457 872307
 
This one really is near a railway station, opposite Greenfield railway station on the Manchester Victoria - Huddersfield line. It is on the Transpennine Pub crawl, a series of pubs that can be reached easily by train, with the timing of the trains allowing for an hour at each pub (which makes for a slow pub crawl to my mind, and I don't know any-one who has got further than Marsden.) It's also a real ale pub par excellence: serves no ale but real ale.
 
ambience - 2
decor - 2
dark beams and off white walls which are badly in need of repainting. But has a lot of photographs of old Saddleworth, showing how the area used to be industrialised. Walking around the rooms is a fascinating history lesson.
 
service - 3
prompt and polite
 
ales - 5
extra point for the range of real ales, there are always at least five
 
features - 3
beer garden a few yards along the road from the pub, in a nice tree shaded space with views over the valley
Allows dogs on leads
Live music Thursday, Friday, Sunday
 
toilet - 3
 
Score 19 out of 30

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