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The Track & Sleeper, Knaresborough

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Platform 2, Knaresborough Railway Station, Station Road
Knaresborough
HG5 9AA

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Knaresborough Central

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Real Ale Ray left this review about The Track & Sleeper

We were going to give up on this micropub opening on our 1pm Sunday visit and were ready to board the train on the opposite platform until we spotted a guy opening up, so we ditched the train and headed back. The young lad said he was up late at a party. This a two roomed pub with a bar and lounge area, plus a further side room. The interior was tastefully finished with wallpapers, restored fireplaces etc.
The front bar was timber cladded using old railway sleepers, plus there was a piece of railway track at the base of the bar, should be a competition to see who can lift it up, Mrs Ale had a go but to no avail.
Six handpumps with 3 on, Gorilla Brewery Silver Back Blonde, Vanilla Gorilla and Monkey Magic.

On 8^th July 2024 - rating: 7
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Graham Coombs left this review about The Track & Sleeper

Award winning conversion of station buildings into an 'ale and gin' bar, consisting of two adjoining rooms plus tables along the platform. All very tasteful and seems to attract artyfarty types but does have some interesting beers, on this occasion Gorilla Vanilla Gorilla, Madape Twist in my Lemon Man, Thornbridge Brother Rabbit and Windle, plus craft keg. Very handy if your train running late.

On 13^th August 2022 - rating: 6
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Will Larter left this review about The Track & Sleeper

A station pub in a nicely repurposed and award-winning building, but it doesn't really work for me. Partly this is because of its location: a small town with plenty of pubs including one right next to the station; partly (for me, at least) it's that my only previous experience of Gorilla beers was at their brewery tap in Mexborough, where I wasn't impressed, and there were three of them on here - the alternative being from Thornbridge; and then because of the location of the pub it's pretty quiet, with nothing in the way of pub atmosphere. It's obviously unfair to compare this one with the Sheffield Tap, but the Harrogate Tap is a very nice railway station pub and this one comes nowhere near it. Perhaps these thoughts came to me when I looked around after taking my beer to a table and saw that the beers listed on a blackboard beside the bar did not come close to matching what was actually available. There's a lot to like about this little pub, like the swallows painted on the ceiling, and some top quality furniture, but this sort of sloppiness gets my goat. To be fair, the Gorilla Silverback Blonde was a pretty good beer, but (here we go, there has to be a but) I don't like pump clips with jokes, and this one with a gorilla in a blonde wig made me hesitate before ordering, and it's still bugging me as I write this review.

On 1^st June 2022 - rating: 5
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