West Riding Refreshment Rooms (Free)

What a place. We had 5 halfs in excellent condition. Great selection. Right at the station. Friendly with a great atmosphere. Cozy. Bangin!

Sometimes you find a pub that just clicks with you. I love a nice railway pub, and this one is well-respected and well-loved with a fairly full crowd on a Saturday afternoon. There are eight cask of mostly Northern breweries (Stancill, Nomadic, Timmy Taylor) with a handful of keg in using a Kernel (this far North!) and a few bottles (mostly German and Belgian but there were a couple of UK craft as well). I would posit that this rivals the beat railway pubs (Sheffield, York and Piccadilly Taps), even more so for being in a town far from famed for its beer pubs. Excellent.

Cracking bar on the station platform..

Bardzo przyjemna knajpa. Ok 20 piw na kranaxh plus dobra whisky. Cenowo tez sensownie. Polecam

Visited with JFE at The Ale Trail 19.01.18. At the Dewsbury Staion. Nine beers on cask. Nice atmosphere, with a good mixture of people of all ages. No background music is a plus!

Great selection of craft

Visited on 25th June 2016. Pub on the Huddersfield bound platform. 3 large rooms with the bar in the middle one plus a large outdoor space. Music on during the day on my visit and the place was busy. A good range of cask beers from the local area plus a decent array of keg beers and a small can and bottle selection, including a £3 mystery bottle. Service was good, I again arrived just ahead of a huge party which slowed things down a bit but all well handled. Good prices and beer quality. Worth a stop off.

If you arrive in Dewsbury by train hoping to undertake a real ale tour of the town’s pubs then you might be better simply staying here and sampling their fine rotating range as there’s little else on offer in the town centre except of course at the Wetherspoon pub. Of the two others only one has pumps and more often than not it is empty of ales. This pub occupies several rooms of the main train building on the west bound platform (i.e not Leeds bound) and also has doors leading out to it from here so you can take your final sips of your drink as soon as you see the train pulling in and still get on before the overly eager conductor closes the doors. If you’re prepared to walk a little Leggers is your next best option. Although there is a feeling of coffee shop waiting room about the place it has a fine atmosphere with the bar central to the three drinking rooms which are all open plan. All the ale pumps rotate and there’s a chalkboard that clearly marks what is on and what is soon to be on that pump, but if you prefer something out of a keg there’s a few obscure options available from them too. Leggers is perhaps the next best option if you're prepared for a good walk.

Wonderful place in the station. Excellent being 2 seconds away from your train. 8 mainly local casks, a couple of interesting kegs and an eclectic bottle range. Small, but good atmosphere for a small place at a station.