Hunter Shack Size:XS Bombala Station opened for passenger

Bombala Station opened for passenger services on 21 November 1921 and closed on 26 March 1986

The building sits within a series documenting structures that occupy a gap between formally heritage-listed alpine huts and town-centre LEP schedules

lit faintly from windows out of frame

The domestic water system of MV Cape Don

Overhead cupboards hang open above it

Hunter Shack Size:XS Bombala Station opened for passengerA single window frames a quiet pastoral landscape through weathered timbers, the corrugated iron roof above it rusted to a deep brown red. This isolated dwelling sits somewhere in the Hunter Valley, one of the smaller structures in the series: a slab and iron vernacular form that once kept out a Monaro wind or a Hunter winter with equal indifference. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.