Steering Gear wildlife Bucket Conveyor at Bathurst

Bucket Conveyor at Bathurst

This room was part of a steam-driven dairy plant that opened in 1939 and ran until the late 1990s

with grey undercoat still visible near the top hatches

Bombala was the terminus of the Goulburn-Bombala branch line

Steering Gear wildlife Bucket Conveyor at BathurstThe steering gear room of MV Cape Don, built by Brown Brothers of Scotland, converts electrical signals from the bridge into hydraulic pressure to move the rudder. It sits below decks on a vessel launched at the State Dockyard, Newcastle on 28 May 1962, and operated for 27 years as a lighthouse supply tender for the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service. Part of the MV Cape Don series.