Lamp Cabin Racks 9 its corrugated iron roof sagging

its corrugated iron roof sagging under the weight of decades

when it closed for good

Launched at the State Dockyard Newcastle on 28 May 1962

One of the original platform seats sits on the 88-metre concrete platform at Bombala Railway Station

it was rebuilt following the 1942 fire and returned to production in 1953

Lamp Cabin Racks 9 its corrugated iron roof saggingThe safety light storage racks inside the lamp cabin at Elrington Colliery, each lamp numbered and assigned to a miner at the start of every shift. When a man came up, his lamp came back. Any lamp still on the rack when the cage stopped running told the surface crew someone was still below ground. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.