Conquering challenges including vandals, secret doors and moving staircases, Riverland Group will soon reopen the historic and surprising Railway Hotel of Brunswick. Beginning life in the 1880s, the four-level Hotel has seen chapters where it served as a hostel, as a television studio, a bookmaker’s office, and even as a part-time morgue. Beyond the mere […]
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Comedian Mick Molloy has come home to roost, buying his first-ever pub, in partnership with Riverland Group. The four-storey Railway Hotel Brunswick, opposite Brunswick station, is a heritage-listed pub built in 1889. It saw headlines in late 2018 when its former owner was sent to prison after pleading guilty to selling nearly $70k worth of
The faded but not forgotten Railway Hotel in Brunswick is set to return under new owners, shaking off its chequered past to become an expansive community-focused venue. The multi-storey Railway was built 1889 beside the train line running north-south through the inner Melbourne suburb of Brunswick. In early 2016 the Hotel was raided by Victoria
The former owner of the now closed Railway Hotel Brunswick has been sent to prison after pleading guilty to selling nearly $70k worth of drugs to undercover cops. Owner of the Railway, 50-year-old Chris Lytras, was arrested and charged back in 2016, following a raid on the Hotel on 15 April. Lytras had previously received
Managers from a Brunswick pub have appeared in Court over charges relating to “huge amounts” of drugs sold on the premises. The sale of drugs was reportedly so prolific customers had to queue outside the hotel’s office to purchase their ice and cocaine. Police were tipped off to the hotel’s activity last July, but took
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