Rails Size:XL Stamps at Kaga

Stamps at Kaga

and hydraulic fittings crowd the front face of an industrial shoe-lasting machine

Dust hangs in the diffused light

It is the kind of tool that would have seen daily use in the Sundell Holden workshop and service centre on Smith Street

its steel rollers still seated in their frames

Rails Size:XL Stamps at KagaSteel narrow gauge rails thread into dense vegetation, the track bed lost beneath years of growth. Once the primary transport system for moving armaments between the wharf, magazines, and storage buildings across Newington Armament Depot and Nature Reserve, these 610 mm gauge lines now sit largely reclaimed by bush. The depot operated under Royal Australian Navy control from 1921 until 1999. Part of the Newington Armory series.