Store Racking rails Forty years before the 2016

Forty years before the 2016 photograph

A large stone wheel sits on a timber frame inside the 1840s wagon barn at Mill Pond Farm

though it was once the daily endpoint for men coming off shift in one of the largest cement manufacturing operations in Australia

Standard-gauge rail through the floor allowed coal wagons inside for repair

Store Racking rails Forty years before the 2016Heavy storage racks line the walls of the stores area at Awaba Colliery, with sprocket drives still sitting on the concrete floor and what appear to be PLC units near the timber staircase. Shafts of light from a row of tall windows cut across the floor, throwing the corrugated iron partition into sharp relief. The mine operated from 1947 until coal reserves in the Great Northern Seam ran out in March 2012. Part of the Awaba Colliery series.