Revolving Door bartender A steel slab taken mid-cut

A steel slab taken mid-cut

a white NSW Mine station wagon

The station building behind it is a Type 11 pre-cast concrete structure

Once the primary transport system for moving armaments between the wharf

when BHP closed the mine citing persistent operating losses

Revolving Door bartender A steel slab taken mid-cutBlue grey tiles line a hallway at Awaba Colliery, leading toward a pair of partially open double doors fitted with security grates and push signs. The corridor was part of the surface infrastructure of a state owned drift mine that operated from 1947 until coal reserves in the Great Northern Seam were exhausted in 2012. A mop and bucket rest beyond the threshold. Part of the Awaba Colliery series.