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The Railway Club, the historic Dunsmuir Street watering hole that closed last year after an 84-year-run, will reopen this spring as The Railway Stage & Beer Café.

Although new leaseholders Jeff Donnelly and Chad Cole, of Vancouver’s Donnelly Group, are taking the club in a new direction — transforming it from a music venue to a neighbourhood pub — they say live entertainment will still be part of the Railway experience.

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The new owners have hired local music impresario Thomas Anselmi, who was involved in renovations at both the Waldorf and Fox Cabaret, to develop live entertainment programming.

“The Railway is one of the most historic live music stages in the city,” Anselmi said in a release. “And this is an opportunity to bring new life to a key venue in Vancouver.”

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The event schedule is still being developed, but the lineup already includes a comedy night hosted by Vancouver comic Dino Archie and the return of musician Joe Rotundo’s Saturday Sessions, which was forced to move when the club closed.