Fire Station fdark Dust settles on empty rooms

Dust settles on empty rooms

Bombala was the terminus of the Goulburn-Bombala branch line

The building sits within a residential and commercial streetscape shaped as much by decades of cold winters as by the economics that emptied it

left where they were when the building stopped accepting guests in 2006

Sauna at Bankstown

Fire Station fdark Dust settles on empty roomsHard hats pile on a red steel bench inside the Nichitsu Mining Village fire station equipment shed, a spoke wheel and hand cranked siren on the concrete floor beside them. Dry leaves cover everything; the roller door stands half open. The shed formed part of the Ogurawa settlement's internal fire brigade infrastructure, which served a community that once numbered well over 2,000 people. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.