The Railway Inn

Built

1837

Gone

1 November 2005

There now

Empty. Permission granted in 2021 to convert it to flats

Address

104 London Road

Where exactly

Placed on London Road from the position of pubs still standing there. Somewhere on this street, not this doorway

A pub built for a station, which outlived the station by 142 years. It went up in 1837 to serve the London Road Station of the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, directly opposite. The Carlisle Journal called it the 'new' Railway Hotel that December. The passenger station closed in 1863 once the North Eastern got access to the Citadel, and was demolished. The pub carried on. Red sandstone ashlar, two storeys and five bays, with a central raised entrance that had a four-column portico until it was removed early last century.

Grade II listed in 1993. It had a bowling green at the back, shown on the 1842 map of Carlisle, the scheme's favourite feature, half a century before the scheme existed. It was one of the first pubs the government took in July 1916 and went to Greenalls around 1973. Its trade was railwaymen: it was the nearest pub to the Upperby enginemen's lodgings, and custom fell away after Upperby depot shut in 1995. Ten years later so did the pub.

Source

• historicengland.org.uk

Also lost on London Road

• The Samson Inn
• The London Tavern
• The Cranemakers
• The Thorncliffe

Still serving, near where it stood

• St Nicholas Arms

  London Road
  10 maway

• The Roadhouse Hotel

  London Road
  40 maway

• Carlisle South End Constitutional Club

  City Centre
  110 maway

• Gallaghers

  City Centre
  180 maway