The Railway, Putney, SW15

This was a Bass Charrington pub with a "notorious" reputation that was given the daft name "Drummonds" before Wetherspoon took it over in 1993. It's a fairly typical old school Spoons that could just as easily have been a Bank conversion rather than an original pub. The twelve pumps were all in use with no silly duplicates or annoying "Available Soon". The selection was GK Ruddles and Abbot, three ciders, Tetley Gold, Doombore, By The Horns Diamond Geezer, Portobello American Pale Ale, WJ King Poacher's Moon, Sambrook's Junction and Thwaite's Lancaster Bomber. I went for the Portobello which was in very good nick. My visit was slightly marred by the short pint I was offered and the fact that after asking for a top up was returned with hardly any change to it. Putting that aside, I thought this was one of the better Spoons and I would happily return.

Large Wetherspoon's over two floors.had a good selection of real ales at very reasonable prices

Might be a Spoons with all of the usual Spoons issues, but on 30th October at 1pm, they had beer and the Bricklayers at the other end of town had run out! A couple of nice pints went down before Sunday lunch at the POW. (Originally reviewed on BITE).