During the early years of collieries and before the mass use of cars as transport, many miners commuted to work by railroad. These special trains would leave from local stations and take the workers straight to the colliery. This shows one of those trains provided for the miners at Ormonde Colliery.
The land used for the colliery was originally brought from the Marquess of Ormonde in 1824, with sinking beginning in 1825. The large onsite facilities included a power house and boiler plant, and a central ventilation station that served not just Ormonde, but also nearby Bailey Brook and Loscoe Collieries. The site merged with New Langley Colliery in 1960, before closing in 1970 as the last underground mine in Heanor.
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