Front barBistroRooms upstairs
Opposite the railway station · Bendigo, Victoria
Front bar open from 11am daily
Grab a stool in the tiled front bar, stay for a parma in the bistro, and if the last train has gone, there are four quiet rooms upstairs.
Sample prices · specials from 5:30pm unless noted
Lunch & dinner, seven days
Pub food done properly: hand-crumbed schnitzels, pies with real pastry lids and steaks from a local butcher. Kids' meals and gluten-free options every service.
Out the back
A brick-walled courtyard behind the old goods shed, strung with festoon lights and shaded by a grapevine that's older than anyone can prove. Heaters come out in May.
Upstairs · four rooms
Pressed-metal ceilings, heavy curtains and proper beds. Named after the jobs that kept the old railway running.
The corner room over the front door, with two tall sash windows facing the station clock.
$165a night
Looks out over the tracks. Train lovers ask for it by name; light sleepers ask for number 3.
$150a night
The quietest room, facing the garden vine. Bathroom is across the hall with a big rain shower.
$115a night
Good for mates on a footy weekend or a parent and teenager. Shares the hall bathroom with number 3.
$105a night
Wednesdays · 7:30pm · free to play
Three questions about our own (slightly tall) history. Answer on the beer mats — they flip to tell you how you went.
Where does the pub get its name?
A signal box stood across the tracks until the 1960s. Its brass lever plates now hang above the front bar.
Which regular had her own spot on the front bar?
Mrs Pickles the cockatoo, who — so the story goes — called last drinks at ten to eleven, sharp.
About how many steps from platform one to the front bar?
Roughly 380 at a stroll — about four minutes, or three if you're chasing last orders.
Pick an answer on each mat.
By train, car or on foot
We're the green-tiled corner building directly opposite Bendigo Station — drawn here the way the old signalmen would have.