Station Road · Reading

A Drink in the Old Railway Hotel

Have a cocktail in the grand Victorian building that used to greet passengers off the train.

• ⏱ 40 min
• 💷 ££
• 🥾 Easy

Great Western House opened in 1844 as the hotel for Reading's brand-new railway station, all red brick and round-arched windows. It's a Malmaison now, and the ground-floor bar still has the scale of a building built to impress people stepping off a train for the first time.

What you’ll do

1. 1Head to the station
2. 2Get a seat
3. 3Prove it

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