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The Station Bar

Postby doonunda » Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:46 am

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Postby StevenJ » Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:13 pm

it is still there, not been for a while now - but the real ale in there used to be very good.
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Postby slow fade » Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:03 pm

Tis still there 8)

Bit of a timewarp drinking in there tho.Still the same family business,decor, old ales etc.
Punters are still the same mix of off duty policemen, firemen and newspaper printers :roll:

Then you walk out and realise it is totally engulfed by surrounding developments like those Matrix flats.Looks a bit out of place now Im afraid to say.Heard its the same guy owns the whole block there.Pub,tenement flats and all and bought it in the 70s for peanuts.Maybe just an urban myth that one ::):
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Re: The Station Bar

Postby My Kitten » Tue Aug 29, 2006 2:53 pm

doonunda wrote:I would thoroughly recommend it for an HG night out..


We've had one there, long time ago tho.
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Postby Sydney Rosewater » Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:26 pm

It got 'done up' a few years ago.
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Postby onyirtodd » Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:04 pm

It's a good shop. Proper beer and no bams.

edited to add 'and handy for the underground'
238 to 127. All in all a good afternoon's work
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Postby red_kola » Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:10 pm

I like pubs where you know that, no matter what, nobody is going to turn up and start playing records loudly when it's obvious that the vast majority of the punters do not want to have to shout at each other to be heard.

They are an increasingly rare find...
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Postby onyirtodd » Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:21 pm

red_kola wrote:I like pubs where you know that, no matter what, nobody is going to turn up and start playing records loudly when it's obvious that the vast majority of the punters do not want to have to shout at each other to be heard.

They are an increasingly rare find...


Many years ago it was popular with members of Strathclyde Police Pipe Band.
238 to 127. All in all a good afternoon's work
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Postby doonunda » Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:50 am

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Postby escotregen » Wed Aug 30, 2006 6:52 pm

Red Kola you are so right about pubs that put on blaring muzak that none of the punters want. I recall one of the HG nights in the Auctioner's in St Vincent's Place. Everything was going along nicely with high quality of socialising and the usual background, just-about-bearable, muzak. Then, up went the volume big time. So you are reduced to "sorry whit wiz that Jimmy?"... "Sorry whit?" ...""Aye right" ... followed by you pretending to hear half of what the other person was saying.
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Postby slow fade » Thu Aug 31, 2006 12:54 am

red_kola wrote:I like pubs where you know that, no matter what, nobody is going to turn up and start playing records loudly when it's obvious that the vast majority of the punters do not want to have to shout at each other to be heard.

They are an increasingly rare find...



Yeah. Like the "Pot still" in Hope street for that reason too.Definetely no karaoke either .
One of the few pubs in the town if i was meetin friends Id be happy if i arrived on my own first....if that makes any sense :roll:
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Postby slow fade » Thu Aug 31, 2006 12:56 am

doubler :? :D
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Postby Sunflower » Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:25 am

Sounds better and better - er - where is it exactly?
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Postby slow fade » Wed Sep 20, 2006 2:38 pm

Sunflower wrote:Sounds better and better - er - where is it exactly?


Its on Port Dundas Rd which is just West Nile Street if you keep walking up.
http://img54.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00343oj4.jpg
Apologies to all the photography purists as this was taken on my phone AFTER Id been in. :D

Sorry to say that after posting that it is a great pub,great ales due to continuityetc I've just discovered the guy thats owned it for 20 years has finally relented and sold the place leading to the staff walking out!.

Hopefully whoever does take the place on will keep its individual style up and it wont become another ONeils or suchlike.
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Postby Dexter St. Clair » Wed Sep 20, 2006 4:44 pm

slow fade wrote:
Sorry to say that after posting that it is a great pub,great ales due to continuityetc I've just discovered the guy thats owned it for 20 years has finally relented and sold the place leading to the staff walking out!.

Hopefully whoever does take the place on will keep its individual style up and it wont become another ONeils or suchlike.


http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/70297.html

Check last para page three
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