Workshop Wall Size:L A Mechanical Store at Wangi

A Mechanical Store at Wangi Wangi

The boiler house once held four Babcock and Wilcox boilers

purpose-built in 1947 for Automatic Totalisators Limited

its round gauge cluster and knobbed pull control still in place

Workshop Wall Size:L A Mechanical Store at WangiA wall inside the main workshop building at Elrington Colliery, near Abernethy. The workshop housed the machine shop, electrical workshop, and compressor room under one roof, with a 15 tonne overhead crane running its full length. BHP Collieries built the colliery to supply coking coal to the Newcastle steelworks, opening production in 1930. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.