Railway Tavern, Chelmsford

This is one of several Gray's houses in Chelmsford, a small pub chain based as far as I am aware just in Essex. It's an old building and is long and narrow with a public bar area at the front with a wooden laminate floor and a saloon bar area at the rear, carpeted and fitted out like a railway carriage. I sat in the public bar area under a dart board. There were a couple of blokes having a game of cribbage which is something you don't often see nowadays. The bar was in the middle of these two areas and had eight beers available, Oxfordshire Ales Pride of Oxford & Winters Inn, GK Abbot, Woodforde Wherry, Sharp's Special, Mighty Oak IPA & Oscar Wilde Mild and Wibbler's Spiced Porter. I went for the Spiced Porter which at £3.50 was the most expensive beer on the list but was an excellent pint. I quite liked this place and it has improved greatly since the days when Gray's pubs sold mainly Greene King beers.