Steering Gear wildlife with grey undercoat still visible

with grey undercoat still visible near the top hatches

Bucket Conveyor at Bathurst

after which the buildings sat vacant for nearly a decade before demolition in 2018

its walls deep with rust from decades of exposure

Bombala was the terminus of the Goulburn-Bombala branch line

Steering Gear wildlife with grey undercoat still visibleThe steering gear room of MV Cape Don, built by Brown Brothers of Scotland, converts electrical signals from the bridge into hydraulic pressure to move the rudder. It sits below decks on a vessel launched at the State Dockyard, Newcastle on 28 May 1962, and operated for 27 years as a lighthouse supply tender for the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service. Part of the MV Cape Don series.