Step off the train and walk into a Codsall pub full of character
It seems an unlikely place for a pub to be found, but step through the doors of the station at Codsall and you'll find a pub with personality.
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Many train commuters will have experienced the feeling of being on a long journey and thinking about having a cold drink at the end of it.
A lot of train stations are within easy walk of a pub or bar, but Codsall Station is among the few across the country which has a pub purpose built into the existing building, allowing it to co-exist as both a travel hub and ale house.
The pub was sensitively converted in 1997 by Holden's Brewery from the waiting room, offices and stationmaster’s house at Codsall Station, having laid dormant and unused for about 20 years, and after a cellar was dug into the foundations, opened as a pub that year.
The Grade II listed building comprises a bar, lounge, snug with log fires and a conservatory, all displaying worldwide railway memorabilia, while steps lead from the conservatory up to the outside drinking terrace with tables and benches overlooking the working station platforms.
The pub is the sister pub under the Holden's Brewery name to the Great Western and shares a lot of the same characteristics, with landlord Toby Lardner saying that he had been working in pubs for years and jumped at the opportunity to run one of his own.
He said: "I started here in 2015 and became landlord a year later, having served my apprenticeship through glass collecting at the age of 16 and doing bits and bobs in pubs, then my ex-in laws took on the pub in 2007.
