Pump Hall Facing North afternoon Light cuts through an open

Light cuts through an open doorway at the far end

the line was surveyed to push on to Orbost in Victoria

Thirroul Beach Motel

sunlight pressing through grimy windows onto the wreckage below

its corrugated iron shell catching the light against a wide rural sky

Pump Hall Facing North afternoon Light cuts through an openThe main pump hall of West Ryde Pumping Station, photographed in 2015 facing north, concrete floor thick with dust and paint peeling from the walls in long curling strips. Station No. 2 was completed in 1921 as the largest steam powered water pumping station in Australia, and listed on the NSW State Heritage Register in 2002. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station series.