Yarraville Railway Hotel

The Yarraville Railway Hotel artwork celebrates the iconic pub on the corner of Ballarat and Anderson Street Yarraville.  The Railway was built in the 1870s as a 14-room pub. At the turn of the century, Yarraville wasn’t the exclusive inner west suburb that is now, and the Railway Hotel in particular seemed to be a flashpoint for a lot of the area’s trouble.

Some favoured headlines of the day describing pretty standard conduct: “Yarraville disturbance – putting in the boot!”, multiple headlines that just read “OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR” or “Fighting in the street”. Things calmed down and then in 1938 the old Railway was knocked down and rebuilt as the current style modern building we know and love. For a brief time it was also the bright green Blarney stone hotel, but fortunately the “Railway” cast iron letters were never removed.

The current owners added the roof terrace around 2016. The hotel remains a historic institution and much loved destination.

Thank you to writer Nick Gillooly and the Westsider for the background information.

The Westsider – Pub Crawls

The Railway Hotel Yarraville

The Yarraville Railway Hotel artwork can be ordered in A4, A3, A2, A1 and the super enormous A0.