Category: Geltsdale
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Gairs Colliery — Where the Rocket Spent its Retirement
An unexpected find in the King’s Forest of Geltsdale. What stands here now is a hollow shell, but once it was the pulse of Gairs Colliery, a lonely Cumbrian mine with a knack for odd decisions and even odder management. A railway once ran from this spot up to the col. You can still trace…