Fire Station fdark with a 65-foot oven and

with a 65-foot oven and ceiling-mounted conveyor belts carrying loaves through a cooling cycle overhead

buried under years of dust

its lettering faded but still legible

Bombala was the terminus of the Goulburn-Bombala branch line

run by the Commonwealth Portland Cement Company from 1902 until production ceased in November 1991

Fire Station fdark with a 65-foot oven andHard 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.