Gantry Crane store The officers' smoke room aboard

The officers' smoke room aboard MV Cape Don

their tops open to the sky

A dusty road winds down through the high country toward the remote settlement of Dalgety

Decaying machinery and discarded components crowd the closures floor of the former Melbourne Glass Bottle Works at Spotswood

Brown Mountain rises behind it as a wall of eucalypt forest

Gantry Crane store The officers' smoke room aboardA rusted steel gantry crane spans the siding at Bombala Railway Station, a clearance sign reading 4. 3 metres still fixed to its frame. Below it, an open hopper wagon and a black tank car sit on the tracks, weeds pushing through the ballast around them. The crane was positioned opposite the main platform to serve the goods and livestock traffic that sustained the terminus from 1921 until the station closed on 26 March 1986. Part of the Bombala Station