Hibiscus Lakeside Motel Colour:Raw A faded "Watch For Trains"

A faded "Watch For Trains" sign stands beside overgrown narrow-gauge railway tracks at Newington Armament Depot and Nature Reserve

Buildings like this one represent the full arc of rural settlement on the Snowy Monaro: squatter huts of the 1830s

The site opened in 1903 as a tuberculosis sanatorium on Kings Tableland and operated continuously for 96 years

Desks and open books sit where classrooms once ran through eight years of operation before the coal economy made them redundant

Hibiscus Lakeside Motel Colour:Raw A faded "Watch For Trains"Hibiscus Lakeside Motel at New South Wales, Australia. Photographed 2015. Available unframed, framed, or face mounted on metallic gloss.