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Sheffield Interchange is home to the City's oldest pub.... The Old Queen's Head...
 

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The 1960s Thames Valley (later Alder Valley) bus station in Reading was underneath the Top Rank Suite, a ballroom / concert venue, which included bar/s

Picture (from Reading local newspaper)
 

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In Nantwich the Red Cow (Robinsons) is right next to the bus station - but it hasn't reopened after lockdown 1. A pub (the Ship Victory) had to be demolished to build the latest "bus interchange" in Chester.

And if you include bus garages as well as bus stations, then the Trent garage in Derby has the excellent Smithfield pub bang next to it. One of my favourite watering holes.
 

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If we are getting to bus garages, then a few bus garages had a staff social club (complete with a bar) on the premises, but I doubt there are any left.

And London General's head office is a former pub building (I expect they removed the bar, though) next door to Merton Bus Garage.
 

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There used to be - it might still be there - a pub within Bradford Interchange, accessed from the stairs leading from the concourse to the railway station.
You’re going back about 20 years there. It’s the First bus staff canteen now
 

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You’re going back about 20 years there. It’s the First bus staff canteen now

Thanks. It would be about 20 years ago since I last walked up those stairs. I suppose The Queen, just down Bridge Street from the entrance to the Interchange, will be the closest now . . . if it still a going concern.
 

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The Brittania Inn in Truro backs onto Truro bus station and even uses the station for back of house access. Also within a minutes walk/run from Truro bus station is Skinners Brewery The Old Ale House and JD Wetherspoons Try Dowr.
 

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The Travellers Tavern at Victoria Coach Station in London must be one of the most used by bus and especially coach passengers
 

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Thanks. It would be about 20 years ago since I last walked up those stairs. I suppose The Queen, just down Bridge Street from the entrance to the Interchange, will be the closest now . . . if it still a going concern.
Arguably, the Avenue Bar on the other side of the road is closer (and less rough).
 

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Plenty of pubs near the main Weymouth stops, the closest to Kings Statue being a 'spoons (The William Henry). But then finding a pub that is close to a bus stop would not be difficult in Weymouth with it's pub density.

Yeovil has the William Dampier 'spoons next to the bus station.
 

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Whilst not technically a station Falmouth Moor where all services to Falmouth terminate has JD Wetherspoon The Packet Station right next to it, which gives a good view of the buses through the trees from upstairs. Also within a 30 second walk from Falmouth Moor bus terminus is The Seven Stars, Bobby’s Bar and Pennycomequick.
 
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A few years ago, I did a piece of work about the location of a certain retail chain who often placed their stores near bus stations or main bus stops; their rationale was they served a certain demographic who would be more reliant on buses.

I wonder if the same rationale exists with Wetherspoons, and so they are disproportionately near bus stations?

My view of Spoons has changed over the years, from thinking they were ok to being really put off by them; that was before the whole Brexit/Covid propaganda in the windows and at your table. I don't go to a pub for Tim Martin's politics!
 

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For a (Greene King) modern chain pub, The Mallard, literally above Doncaster Interchange is OK.
 

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As someone has already mentioned the Old Queens Head at Sheffield Interchange I'll go for the more tenuous option of the Rawson Spring Wetherspoon at Hillsborough Interchange - the pub doors are on the outbound tram platform with the bus station across a pedestrian crossing.
 

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Woah, steady on! The Grove is only across the road. It has the finest array of pub taxidermy and weird stuff in the north (and the beer's top notch, too) :D

There was a proper wipe-your-feet-on-the-way-out boozer bolted onto Crewe bus station until a couple of years ago, too.
The Grove is decent, but I hadn't considered it as it's outside the ring-road: the road it is across is several lanes wide at that point so it's hardly on the doorstep of the bus station. I certainly wouldn't advise nipping in there if you've less than 20mins to your bus, unless your bus is the Golcar Circular (301/302) which runs right past the pub.
 

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Ashington bus station in Northumberland has a Wetherspoons, the Rohan Kanhai. The Stagecoach depot at South Shields (the old tram shed) has a lovely social club built in. Going back, Durham bus station had a short lived bar, it was as bad as you can imagine. Turning things on their head, the closed Whitehaven bus depot IS now a Wetherspoons, The Bransty Arch. At the old Hull bus station was the Green Gingerman, always an entertaining place to wait :)
 

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This sort of counts but the CT4N depot in Sherwood (Nottingham) was split in two with the other half sold and turned into a Wetherspoons
 

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A few years ago, I did a piece of work about the location of a certain retail chain who often placed their stores near bus stations or main bus stops; their rationale was they served a certain demographic who would be more reliant on buses.

I wonder if the same rationale exists with Wetherspoons, and so they are disproportionately near bus stations?

My view of Spoons has changed over the years, from thinking they were ok to being really put off by them; that was before the whole Brexit/Covid propaganda in the windows and at your table. I don't go to a pub for Tim Martin's politics!
Hi Wazoo,
I've only used spoons for a quick coffee/hot drink as such but the one in Midsomer Norton is handy as a toilet as nothing much else there of that nature. All in all I imagine I've left more water in spoons over the years than consumed.
Cheers,
Mike R
 

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Hi Wazoo,
I've only used spoons for a quick coffee/hot drink as such but the one in Midsomer Norton is handy as a toilet as nothing much else there of that nature. All in all I imagine I've left more water in spoons over the years than consumed.
Cheers,
Mike R

Hmmmm.... I know what you mean. I had heard it said that McDonalds were the biggest provider of public toilets in the UK
 

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As someone has already mentioned the Old Queens Head at Sheffield Interchange I'll go for the more tenuous option of the Rawson Spring Wetherspoon at Hillsborough Interchange - the pub doors are on the outbound tram platform with the bus station across a pedestrian crossing.
Yep, the extremely popular Wetherspoons at Hillsborough is in the old swimming baths, fantastic building, well worth going in even if you are not too keen on Tim Martin!
 

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As previously posted, Sheffield has the Queens Head and many years ago during my commuting days the Penny Black. And at the other end of the bus station (2 mins walk) and across the road from the railway station, The Howard. Happy days and happy memories
 

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then a few bus garages had a staff social club (complete with a bar) on the premises, but I doubt there are any left.
Plymouth citybus have only shut theirs in recent years. Drivers can often be seen, still in uniform in the Wetherspoons across the road from the Milehouse depot
 

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I think you can consider the Brewery Tap at Peterborough as it's directly opposite the bus station at Queensgate Shopping Centre.
 
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