Workshop Switchroom Size:XS a colonial vernacular slab cottage

a colonial vernacular slab cottage built around 1890 in the New South Wales Southern Tablelands

when Roberts and Badgery established the original estate on this Southern Tablelands creek

closed as a school in 1983

their surfaces carrying more than a century of weathering since the site's 1897 establishment

The station was the terminus of a branch line that took 37 years to push south from Joppa Junction to the Monaro tablelands

Workshop Switchroom Size:XS a colonial vernacular slab cottageA yellow crane isolator sign marks the wall above a small electrical box in the workshop switchroom at Awaba Colliery, beside a green first aid cross and a ladder rising to an upper platform. Switching and breaker panels line the left wall, with an orange electric shock warning cabinet opposite. Development of the mine began in 1947; the last shift ran on 23 December 2011.