Main Engine House Back Wall Colour:Black which operated from 1940 until

which operated from 1940 until metal extraction ceased in 1978

A graffiti-covered roller door fills the left wall of this ground-floor space

lifting dust from the decaying timber below

constructed by Stuart Brothers of Sydney using locally sourced bricks

pushed by a 5-cylinder Polar diesel producing 2

Main Engine House Back Wall Colour:Black which operated from 1940 untilThe rear wall of the main engine house at Elrington Colliery, Abernethy, where the winding machinery sat above two concrete lined shafts sunk 363 metres to the Main Greta Seam. BHP Collieries built the structure as part of a purpose designed pit top complex intended to extract 3,000 tonnes of coking coal per day for the Newcastle steelworks. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.