You'd be suprised how many ex miners would go back down the pits in an instant, for people who've never worked underground its hard to explain, a lot comes down to conditioning most of us went down the pits straight from school, I was underground at 16 working on my the coalface at 18, some people who came into the pits after working other jobs never quite took to it like those of us who knew no better
working on a tailgate rip were the top was for ever coming in.
Nightmare of a job mate, last going off I was working on "Gob headings", tunnels going through old coalface workings