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Visitors and guide about to enter Apedale Mine. It is a footrail [drift] mine,... (more)

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A well equipped Ford Transit. Stoke-on-Trent used to be a major mining centre... (more)

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Excellent museum display and good cafe - see Link .

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I was amazed to discover that I had visited this site earlier than I thought I... (more)

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Looking towards the Apedale Heritage Centre.

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Though a pale green, this is presumably hay (or possibly haylage).

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Some of the stock used in a recent Trains to the Trenches commemoration of WWI.... (more)

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Although not officially open on this day there were people doing work and moving... (more)

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Former colliery buildings now servicing the Apedale Valley Light Railway that is... (more)

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A Consolidated Pneumatic air compressor is seen on the right with a Massey... (more)

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John Tinsley of Darlington compressed air horizontal duplex rope changing winch,... (more)

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This is by the footrail (drift) mine and the green shed houses the haulage... (more)

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Straight on [north] for the Newcastle Way, left [west] for a climb through... (more)

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This volunteer run narrow gauge industrial railway was gearing up for the... (more)

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The green shed houses the electrohydraulic winding engine for the drift. The... (more)

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A footrail is a drift mine and this one is now preserved with underground... (more)

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Bringing a passenger train into the station.

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Narrow gauge steam on the Apedale Valley Light Railway - see Link .

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Much of the park is reclaimed opencast.

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In Apedale Community Country Park, a reclaimed opencast site.

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Most of the footpaths in the country park are not official public footpaths, but... (more)

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Much of Apedale Community Country Park is a reclaimed opencast coal mine.

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This was once an opencast coal mine. the big sheds are about 1500 metres away.

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This part of Apedale Community Country Park is a reclaimed opencast coal mine.

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This part of Apedale Community Country Park is a reclaimed opencast coal mine.

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This area is a reclaimed opencast coal mine.

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A reclaimed opencast coal mine.

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The whole of this area is land restored after opencast coal mining in the early 1990s.

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On Apedale Community Country Park's Woodland Trail.

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Part of Apedale Community Country Park's Woodland Trail.

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This area was never opencast because it is ancient woodland. Now part of the... (more)

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Part of Apedale Community Country Park's Woodland Trail.

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Alongside Apedale Community Country Park's Woodland Trail.

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Part of Apedale Community Country Park's Woodland Trail, on the edge of... (more)

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Part of Apedale Community Country Park's Woodland Trail, on the edge of... (more)

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Part of Apedale Community Country Park's Woodland trail, in Watermills Wood.

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Part of Apedale Community Country Park's Woodland Trail. Watermills Wood... (more)

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One of several waymarked trails in Apedale Community Country Park.

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Watermills Wood was saved from opencast coal mining because of its value as... (more)

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Pools within a footpath dogleg.

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At the eastern edge of Watermills Wood.

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Much of Apedale Community Country Park has been created from former opencast.

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The whole of this hillside was created by land restoration after opencast coal... (more)

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Taking a footpath over a drain on a former opencast site.

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Apedale Community Country Walk is popular with walkers.

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Alongside the Newcastle Way in Apedale Community Country Park.

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