Rail Ale Rambles anyone?
Does anyone else remember these events? They were run by a bloke called Gerald whose surname may have been Daniels. He lived in Hampshire at a place called Church Crookham and was some sort of manager at Waterloo Station. The idea was that he would charter a train or group book a carriage to take a load of beer enthusiasts (aka drunks) to a distant attractive venue. I remember going to Keighley for the first time on one of there trips but the two that most clearly stick in my mind were Ulverston in the Lake District and Yarmouth on the Isle Of Wight. The Ulverston trip was a chartered train and is the only time I recall drinking Hartleys. The Yarmouth trip was in the 1980s but before afternoon opening came in. It was in December and the whole point of it was to latch onto the all day opening in Yarmouth to celebrate the delivery of the Christmas supplies to the Needles lighthouse. There were three of us and we immediately got a cab over to Freshwater to tick a Burt's pub (a new brewery!).
I stopped going on them because a boorish group started attending who took a plastic barrel of cider with them and thought the rest of the train would be entertained by them doing a Conga along the carriages. I don't think they even went to any pubs at the destination.
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Originally Posted by Mobyduck
