A pit phone next to the Heinrich shaft !

 

Communication is very important !


Especially in mining communication is very essential and not really easy. A modern colliery's roadways are mostly longer than 100 kilometres and not only because of the safety it is necessary to be able to communicate.

Even if this telephone in the picture looks quite old-fashioned, it is connected to all important places and institutions like the pit bank and the sixth and the seventh level as the (German) abbreviations can tell us.