It hasn't seen a beer poured since 1966 but the building is a lasting remnant of Orange's golden railway age.
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At one point there were five hotels close to the Orange railway station but now only the Great Western Hotel remains.
The last of the old brigade to close was the aptly-named Railway Hotel which began life as the Terminus Hotel in 1875, two years before the railway came to town.
The last licensee was Edward James Baker and when the doors closed for the last time the pub had only been using decimal currency for seven months.
The name changed about 1920 and when the Tooth's brewery inspectors started visiting the hotel in 1922 and until its closure on September 24, 1966, it was always called the Railway Hotel.
An inspector reported in 1930 it was far from the CBD. "Two-storey brick, tiled about six feet, plenty of mirrors, way out of town beyond Station House Hotel, good clean appearance," he wrote.
The Station House was one of three pubs opposite the station on Peisley Street.
The Railway had a succession of licensees visited by the inspectors. Their records of those inspections are now held by the Australian National University and the Noel Butlin Archives.
The first photo of the hotel in the archives, from November 1925, shows the pub named Collins's Railway Hotel.
However, the first record by the inspectors lists Mr Collins as having died with Mr M. J. Buckley running the pub from November 1926. Mrs Melba May Morris was licensee from 1953 to 1964.
The last licensee was Edward James Baker, and when the doors closed for the last time the pub had only been using decimal currency for seven months.
The building still stands on Peisley Street.
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