Tea on the Train
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Tea on the Train

A wonderfully quirky afternoon tea served in a restored first-class railway carriage at the old station, with proper china and beautifully made sandwiches and scones.

Address:

Station Yard, Woodburn Road, Bellingham, NE48 2DG
Call:
01434 221151

Hours:

Daily: 10am - 4pm

Map

Good to Know

Tea on the Train is a café in a former first-class HST 125 carriage, the kind that once ran on the East Coast main line, standing beside the platform at Bellingham's old station. It's run by the Heritage Centre next door and opened in 2023, with historic photographs of the Border Counties Railway on the walls.

Why it's on our list: it's a wonderfully quirky place for lunch or afternoon tea, with proper china and well-made sandwiches and scones, and the money supports the volunteer-run Heritage Centre.

Worth knowing: opening hours are shorter in winter. It's a perfect stop before or after Hareshaw Linn.

A Little Note From Heather & Sand

We haven't quite made it here ourselves yet, but it's on our list!

We're working our way around Northumberland, personally visiting and reviewing as many of the places featured in our Listed section as we can. It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it.

In the meantime, we do our homework. Before adding somewhere to Heather & Sand, we research it, look at what other visitors have to say and check that it has a good reputation. If the feedback isn't encouraging, it generally doesn't make our list.

Of course, a little online research is no substitute for muddy boots, a decent coffee and seeing somewhere for ourselves. So until we've visited, we'll leave the personal review to one side.

A little about us...

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Through our Journal, Guide and Listed pages, we hope to help you discover somewhere new, revisit an old favourite or simply enjoy a little Northumberland from wherever you happen to be.

Tom, Lucy & the Heather & Sand crew.

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