Switching Room Type:Unframed sat abandoned by the time

sat abandoned by the time Lost Collective photographed it in 2015

A 1969 fire gutted its interior and all internal structures were removed

its grey surface streaked with rust and dust

The plant closed permanently in August 1988

Structures like this one represent the selector's gamble that played out across rural New South Wales from the 1860s onward: 320 acres at a pound an acre

Switching Room Type:Unframed sat abandoned by the timeA 415V main switch panel stands open against a stained wall in the switching room, conduit and cable trailing across a concrete floor covered in debris. Double steel doors open onto a second room beyond, graffiti marking the paintwork around them. The switching room sits within the ATL Building at Nancarrow Avenue, Meadowbank, the precision manufacturing factory built for Automatic Totalisators Limited in 1947. Part of the ATL Building series.