The Railway Hotel was an unremarkable Stones pub, which like the others in the area survived on trade from the steel industry after the local slum housing was cleared..
The demise of the steel industry led to its first demise in the early 1980s. The announcement that the Student Games led to its rebuilding and re-opening as the Stadium. This was an odd choice of name as it is across the road from the Arena and not the Stadium. The second re-incarnation lasted till 1995, when the pub closed down for a second time, only to re-emerge as the Noose & Gibbet.
The Gibbet outside portraying the body of Spence Broughton. Again geography is not a strong point; Spence Broughton was gibbeted outside the Arrow, (later renamed Pheasant) near Carbrook Hall on Attercliffe Common.