Port Waratah Coal Services Collage

On Wednesday we went on a U3A bus outing in Newcastle. In the morning, we went to Port Waratah Coal Services, and it was a really interesting tour. Lunch was at Wests in Mayfield and then in the afternoon we went to Miss Porters House which is a National Trust building. I will post the collage from that tour tomorrow.

This is the first chance I have had to put the photos together.

Luckily, I have a day at home today and the sun is shining so I have finally managed to get 3 loads of washing done.

[Susan Klassen]

Excellent collage of this operation. I’m sure it was interesting. Fav.

[eDorre]

Grand collage

[Annie D]

Great images Babs - the machinery on ports is amazing

[Diana]

A fabulous collage of these amazing machines, what an interesting outing it must have been.

[Casablanca]

Nice, looks a fascinating place to visit

[haskar]

Beautiful industrial collage.

[Cliff McFarlane]

Wow, that's big machinery. Nicely put together

[Kathy A]

That all looks very interesting. Looks like your U3A does some fabulous activities

[Susan Wakely]

Sounds like an interesting tour.

[Dione Giorgio]

Beautiful series of shots in a lovely collage. They tell an interesting story.

[Joan Robillard]

Wonderful collage

[PhotoCrazy]

Nice pics. That's some heavy equipment

[Renee Salamon]

So interesting

[KV]

Sounds like a fun day… nice collage.

[Beverley]

Super impressive… great collage

[bkb in the city]

Very nice collage

[carol white]

An interesting collage

[Margaret Brown]

An interesting industrial collage

[Pat Knowles]

A p very informative visit I’m sure. Is it a coal mine? A modern one! I googled…..distributing coal to their places!

[Yao RL]

Very industrial.

[Judith Johnson]

Looks like a very interesting place to visit

[Rob Z]

Great collage Babs - this looks like it would have been an fascinating tour..

[Babs]

@happypat No it isn't a coal mine it is a coal loading facility to put the coal on ships. The coal is brought down from the Hunter Valley on trains unloaded and stockpiled it then goes through different processes, scooped onto conveyor belts etc and then loaded onto the ship. The bottom three show the loading process.

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Wow- that machinery is massive! Great collage- sounds like a very interesting tour.

[Babs]

@dailypix @edorreandresen @annied @ludwigsdiana @casablanca @haskar @clifford @kjarn @wakelys @wakelys @sangwann @sangwann @joansmor @photographycrazy @rensala @kvphoto @beverley365 @bkbinthecity @carolmw @craftymeg @yaorenliu @busylady @robz @olivetreeann Thanks. It was a really interesting tour. We see the coal loaders when we go to Newcastle loading the ships, but it was really interesting to see the other side.

[Kathy]

Seems you are connected with a group that takes a lot of interesting trips

[Rick]

Great shots and collage.

[Dorothy]

I find places like this very interesting.