Store Racking rails BHP completed the surface complex

BHP completed the surface complex here between 1925 and 1930

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

Corrugated iron became the standard cladding for Australian woolsheds from the 1850s

and an abandoned machine sitting in the passage beyond

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

Store Racking rails BHP completed the surface complexHeavy 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.