Railway Tavern, Rossendale

A fairly decent pub though not great. What looks like it may be big it seems to be in 2 parts, a dining area to your right and a smallish bar to your left. 2 handpumps with Worsthorpe Spring Special and Rossendale Glen something. To the side is a patio beer place. Limited, if any, views of the river.

As you enter you walk into the main room with the bar straight ahead. There's a pool room to the right down a few steps and a further room beyond this which was closed, but looked like a dining room. To the left there's an area for live acts or karaoke and a small beer garden. Fairly busy on my Friday afternoon visit with after work building site guys, many with high viz jackets etc. Loads of TV's showing sport all around the room. 2 handpumps on the bar serving Worsthorne beers and my pint was in good nick. I can see this place getting a bit boisterous later at night, it has that kind of vibe.

Renamed The Riverside Inn

Oldish interior, style and customers. Lots of wainscotting and publike bench seats and tables. A mass of Beatles related photos cover the walls, although the Cavern Quarter is a fair way away; is that the sound of a band wagon creaking under the weight? There’s an interesting statue at one end of the single room plus a few photos of old Liverpool at the other. Usual boring range of kegs plus the more unusual Manns Chestnut but no cask ales. A few youngish scallies who had escaped from the nearby trashier places mingled with the oldies. Apart from the beer not much can be said for or against this place, just average.

This pub has been refurbished and is now called The Riverside Inn. [edit: actioned 27/10/09]