Shed24H tearooms at Hellifield Station

Excellent good value cafe on Hellifield railway station platform. We had full breakfast for £5 incl drink and toast, nicely cooked and certainly sets you up for the day. Good place to spot steam trains when they are running through. You can even have a holiday in the adjoining apartment. Good luck with your venture and keep up the good work

A quirky unique experience, worth a special visit, and excellent if you’re waiting for a daytime train on the otherwise desolate station. (Closed Mondays). Equally ideal if you’re into spotting the many heritage trains that come through the junction. Don’t be put off by the dire approach up the station ramp under the platform. The cafe has an excellent selection of basic but very warming foods and it’s served quickly and with a smile. It’s accessible to people of limited agility (including wheelchair accessible) and the toilets are also accessible and on the same level. In warmer weather there is the opportunity to eat at tables on the railway platform. Adjacent to the cafe is a series of rooms with railway memorabilia and books, and a little playroom for children. Definitely somewhere I would go again.

Shed 24 H is a very friendly station cafe at Hellifield railway station with very friendly and polite staff and the food they serve is fresh and excellent value if yo are ever passing through jor near call in you won't be disappointed I can highly recommend it

I'm annoyed that the system insist that I have to give it 1 star, which is far too generous. We called here on a very wet Saturday in early October. They were not providing the required table service under the covid rules, people were wandering up and down without masks, and nobody seemed to care. I ordered a steak and kidney pie with mushy peas, and my wife ordered a jacket potato. When it arrived, the pie looked as though it had been injection-moulded in a plastics factory, filled with some kind of brown gloop, and the mushy peas were similar to some of the green slime i periodically pull out of my fish pond. My wife's potato was almost completely uncooked and inedible. She accordingly returned it with a request that they provide her with a cooked one. This in itself appeared to cause some ill-feeling, as though nobody should dare to complain. Grudgingly, the counter staff took it back, and returned to our table no more than 5 minutes later, with a replacement potato of about one-third the size of the original, pointing out that they had deliberately done a smaller one to ensure that it was cooked. Of course, it was not, and duly was abandoned by my wife once again. Having spent many years running a catering business, I have never discovered any cooking method by which a jacket potato can be cooked in as little as 5 minutes. Perhaps they have a nuclear-powered microwave. I accept other reviewers comments that the menu appears to offer good value for money, but that only holds true if the food is fit to eat.

Fantastic food,staff and location. And Benjie the lovely dog 🐕