Study Room colors sunlight pressing through grime-streaked windows

sunlight pressing through grime-streaked windows onto peeling paint and scattered debris

and an abandoned machine sitting in the passage beyond

The station precinct opened on 21 November 1921 as the terminus of the Goulburn-Bombala line

before depopulation emptied the building

its metal frame heavy with rust after years of disuse

Study Room colors sunlight pressing through grime-streaked windowsA CRT monitor and keyboard sit on a low timber table over deteriorating tatami, shoji windows shattered behind them, curtains hanging in strips. This was company housing in the Ogurawa settlement, built and operated by Nitchitsu Co. Ltd. to support the Chichibu Mine workforce. The settlement was uninhabited from September 2006. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.