"Well here we are standing at the Teversal Trails Coal Garden. Now, the Coal Garden was designed as a memorial to the mining community to the mines that were in this area and is one of the main access points to the Teversal Trail. Now from this point, we find we can access what is called the triangle, which is a 4 and a half mile circuit that joins several of the old colliery sites together. Now, they are joined together by old railway tracks. Of course, the tracks have long since been removed and a nice surface has been put there which is for horse riders, cyclists and walkers, whatever you want to do along the trail. What makes this nice is that they are all on the level, so there is no hard hills to try and climb or descend along.
"The first trains in this area would have been bought in around the 1850s and serving the established collieries at that time, and they didn't cease to run until the collieries ceased to function and that is as recent as the late 1980s. So there was quite a long period of times the trains were running here. Here at this point of course is a visitor centre which is run by volunteers and as such is not open from early morning to late night, but is open normally from 10:30am to 2 o'clock each day. In the summer times maybe a little longer. But here you can find nice refreshments and they are quite well known for their bacon butties. And they do have exhibitions in there as well relating to Teversal history of the Teversal area, not only the collieries but other aspects of the history as well around the Teversal area."