Washhouse Rear Size:S The railway once moved armaments

The railway once moved armaments between the wharf

exposing an older layer of yellowed newsprint with livestock sale advertising and the partial name Frank Ganz

faded brown and layered in years of accumulation

A concrete platform edges into encroaching scrub at Waratah Park

picking out the room's slow deterioration

Washhouse Rear Size:S The railway once moved armamentsThe rear brick wall of the washhouse at Elrington Colliery, near Abernethy. This building served as the shower and change room block where underground workers cleaned up after shifts on the Main Greta Seam, 1,190 ft below the surface. The colliery operated from 1930 until December 1962. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.