Store Racking rails Forty years before the 2016

Forty years before the 2016 photograph

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

part of the Dr August Scheidel-era plant constructed around 1902

Cluster at Australia and Japan

The starboard side corridor of MV Cape Don stretches past crew cabins to the right

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.