When I visited the Foxfield Railway, a tour of the Foxfield Colliery. Currently closed to the public, the aim is to restore the site so it can be the end of the line for the rest of the railway.
For the modeller, it's a lovely, compact site. And the headstocks would be ideal for a scratchbuilder, with concrete-covered steels that cry out to be built from Plastruct. At a guess, they are around 80ft tall, so not stupidly big in OO or N gauge.
Let's hope the site can be restored, there is a lot of work taking place. But if you have a spare five million quid knocking around, then the process could be a lot quicker!
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A good photo here of the colliery in working days. https://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/Details.aspx?&ResourceID=13443&PageIndex=4&SearchType=2&ThemeID=450
That's an interesting photo. While I was there, we discussed the high-level narrow guage tracks, which can just be seen on the left hand side of the picture.
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