The Swan & Railway Hotel, Wigan

The Swan and Railway has a central corridor off which there is a bar to the right with serving hatch and a room to the left with banquette seating. Further up the corridor there is a much longer room to the left, which looks like it may have been three smaller rooms in the past. Opposite are the toilets. The bar area has an L-shaped serving counter that faces banquettes down the right wall and a beer shelf with stools along the front window. There’s a large stained glass window on the back bar that sits around the aforementioned serving hatch to the central corridor. An old style jukebox sits against the rear wall of the bar area and a large TV was playing muted Racing TV, thankfully the sound was from the Jukebox. The bar supports eight fonts for standard and premium keg and I counted seven handpumps. The Titanic Plum Porter was off (FFS), but Daleside Bitter, Revolution Brewing’s Spanish Bombs, Bank Top’s Dark Mild, Bass, Tatton’s Lemon Grab and something from Moorhouses were available.

Nicely restored pub, right opposite the North Western station, with numerous heritage features in the bar, corridor and side room. Seven real ales on handpump, which might be several too many in the current circumstances since my pint of Prospect Dark Mild (£2.90) seemed to have sat around in the pipes rather too long...