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    Keith.
    Betteshanger will never open as a colliery, ever.

    Apart from the shafts being filled in, the nearest coal to the shaft, was about a twenty minute train ride away.
    Our coal was specialist coking coal used in steal works and foundries, tests are still being made to see how it could be used in the future, but I personally, cannot ever see it being mined in the same method as our miners had used over the last 100 years.

    But if it did, it would not be via a shaft near Betteshanger.
    More like Ripple, Oxney Bottom or St.Margarets Bay area would be my best guess.

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