Store Racking rails its spire still visible above

its spire still visible above the roofline of the surrounding false-front buildings

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

BHP completed the surface complex here between 1925 and 1930

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

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

Store Racking rails its spire still visible aboveHeavy 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.