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The Railway Hotel – Station Road
Up to 1901

This is Station Road, looking up the hill towards The Terrace from the railway crossing. The Railway

(as it was initially named in 1849) became first the Railway Tavern and then the Railway Hotel, as its
fortunes flourished. In 1856 it was bought by the Wokingham Brewery. By 1901 it had a larger trade

than the Rose Hotel. An annex, the Railway Tap, was opened at the back for those customers who

were not as wealthy as the main patrons of the hotel.