Numbla Vale Cottage tree The station was the terminus

The station was the terminus of a branch line that took 37 years to push south from Joppa Junction to the Monaro tablelands

the largest steam-powered water pumping station in Australia when it opened in 1921

Buildings like this housed the itinerant shearers and station hands who kept the Monaro's wool industry moving across the pastoral boom years of the 1870s to 1890s

Weigher Floor at Wangi Wangi

listed on the NSW State Heritage Inventory

Numbla Vale Cottage tree The station was the terminusTimber walls lean under the weight of years, paint peeled back to bare grain, a corrugated iron roof gone deep with rust. Numbla Vale Cottage stands in open New South Wales country, a selector's cottage reduced to its bones. The NSW State Heritage Inventory records Numbla Vale as a listed locality. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.