The venue : Sheffield station
The purpose : to follow in the steps of James May & Oz Clarke on their Rail Ale Tour.
Footnote : the Warrington Beer Festival Committee would be joining us - purely for "research purposes"
The photos :
The 11.36 to Huddersfield - where does that go from? 2B or not 2B?
2B
First port of call - Huddersfield
We will be working up a head of steam here!
Cliff and his "team" were already waiting for us at Stalybridge
It's just gone 2.30 and our train is at 3.20, so let's have another beer!
The "research team"
Some formation walking
(with thanks to the Croft Formation Drinking Team for the idea)
We know where you are going, Owen
Some more formation walkers
Where are we, Angela?
Dewsbury, of course
We then returned to Huddersfield for some more ale and a meal at The Head of Steam.
We used a South Pennine Day Ranger ticket which allowed us unlimited travel on the Northern Rail lines between Sheffield, Wakefield, Leeds and Manchester - all for £14
For details of Head of Steam see http://www.theheadofsteam.com/default.aspx?tabid=10187
For details of West Riding, Dewsbury see http://www.imissedthetrain.com/west/?p=Real-Ale&listid=44
The Stalybridge website is not available at present.
For details of the rail ticket see http://www.northernrail.org/page/6/pdfs/special_offers/dayrangers/dayrangers_southpennines_2009.pdf
I see that CAMRA has a legit "RAIL ALE" rival now. Where next?
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