(02 Apr 2016, 10:04 pm)Ambassador wrote Not entirely sure, there may have been infrastructure around to support it. A quick look at Durham coalfields brings up an awful lot
www.durhamrecordoffice.org.uk/Pages/AdvancedSearchDurhamCollieriesResults.aspx?SearchType=Param&SearchID=f2896b30-7c3d-46e5-b647-9da0a9a493fb
Its intriguing as I'm not sure where that road would go, a link to Smithy Lane perhaps but the railway has been there a lot longer I'd assume so it must have gone around or over it
Might find FIL's keys in that lot.
Never found out, until his funeral, that he maintained that he'd lost a set of keys under what is now the Angel of the North, while he was at work.
(I did suggest it would be a good idea to scatter his ashes with his keys, but he wanted them in his leek trench)