![]() Once Orwell has described the miners’ journey travelling to and from their place of work, he then reports on the ways in which coal is extracted from the earth. (Earlier, Orwell had described the journey down into the mine, in the densely packed cage that transports miners from the surface down to the coal-face, as like going down the lift on the Piccadilly line on the London Underground though he makes this comparison in order to contrast that relatively short journey with the extreme depths underground that many miners travel, as much as four hundred yards below the Earth’s surface.) This is their ‘commute’, a journey which Orwell likens to Londoners having to walk from London Bridge to Oxford Circus.
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