Pump Hall Facing North afternoon sunlight pressing through grimy windows

sunlight pressing through grimy windows onto the wreckage below

closed eight years later as the coal industry hollowed out the city

Light cuts through an open doorway at the far end

was described as the biggest independent bakery in Australia

the line was surveyed to push on to Orbost in Victoria

Pump Hall Facing North afternoon sunlight pressing through grimy windowsThe main pump hall of West Ryde Pumping Station, photographed in 2015 facing north, concrete floor thick with dust and paint peeling from the walls in long curling strips. Station No. 2 was completed in 1921 as the largest steam powered water pumping station in Australia, and listed on the NSW State Heritage Register in 2002. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station series.