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The Miners’ Memorial and Visitors’ Centre were completed in December 2000. In 2001 it won the Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design, awarded by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects. This is the most prestigious award in Australia for an Urban Design project.
The architects, Chris Landorf (Grand daughter of former Broken Hill Mine Manager Pittman Hooper) and David Manfredi, designed a symbolic and spiritual representation of the tragic deaths from mining accidents of more than 800 miners, whose names are all recorded on the walls of the memorial.
A memorial service for fallen miners is now held annually at the Miners’ Memorial: a day of remembrance that coincides, as closely as possible, with the anniversary of the deaths of Leopold Campbell and Thomas Jordan, who died on the Central Mine in 1902.
The site of the Memorial and Visitor’s Centre, on the edge of the tailings on top of the line of lode, is also a dramatic lookout, sitting 54 metres, with an excellent view over the city to the northwest.
Line of Lode Miner's Memorial and restaurant is a dramatic, iconic new structure on the edge of the mullock heap that dissects Broken Hill.
Mining has claimed more than 800 lives over the years at Broken Hill, and the dramatic Line of Lode Miner’s Memorial and Visitors Centre, overlooking the city, is a poignant monument to them all. The Line of Lode is one of the world’s largest bodies of ore, containing the silver, lead and zinc that made fortunes in this remote outback city. The striking architecturally designed memorial, which was opened in 2001, has the name of each miner who perished etched into freestanding glass panels within the high, rust-red steel walls. Passing through the monument is sobering: spend a while reflecting on the human tragedy that encompasses a key part of the city’s mining history. There are also spectacular views from the summit of the gigantic hill or mullock on which the memorial is built (in essence a 30m-high pile of mining waste material).
Source: Visit Broken Hill (www.visitbrokenhill.com/Discover/Silver-Trail/13.-Line-of...) & NSW Government.
Guillaume Daniel (G.D.) Delprat, after whom this shaft was named, was a Dutch-Australian metallurgist and mining engineer. An astute businessman, Delprat was Broken Hill Proprietry Limited’s ( BHP) General Manager from 1899 to 1921. He played an important part in the perfecting of a technique that came to be known as the (C.V.) Potter-Delprat flotation process; it revolutionized sulphide ore treatment and brought enormous profits from the metal content of millions of tons (tonnes) of formerly useless tailings.and a developer of the flotation process, which entails separating valuable minerals from gangue (mined rock that is not ore) with water.
The Delprat shaft was sunk in 1900. In 1952, the original wooden headframe was replaced by the present steel structure, and an electric winder replaced a steam engine. The early steam engines used to power mining machinery in the early twentieth century were powered by boilers fuelled by local firewood. Timber was also cut for use in buildings and headframes.
The shaft was closed to mining by the time MMM (Mining for Metal and Minerals) ceased operations in August 1976. It became a tourist mine in 1977, and its closure in 2007 was due to nearby remnant mining operations by CBH Resources.
Source: Visit Broken Hill (www.visitbrokenhill.com/Trails/Silver-Trail/11.-Delprat-S...)
It was surreal to go from being indoors for three months during Queensland's COVID lockdown to seeing beautiful Australian Outback sunsets with my now wife on our Outback roadtrip.
As the crew inspect the train in the daylight, DL41, DL50 and 8248 hum quietly in Broken Hill Yard on 5404s empty PN grain bound for Bowmans.
This is a composite made from three images. The sky is from Dublin, foreground is from Broken Hill and the spires are from Valley of Fire.
A relatively clean NR113 clears the Huddleston curves and heads for Broken Hill kicking up dust on the rural road crossing with train #4500 empty ore on Friday May 2, 2025.
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The NSW mining city of Broken Hill. A very flat landscape, except for mining waste piles. The photo was taken from Miners Memorial. just outside Broken Hill. Also notice the iconic Indian Pacific train.
Broken Hill’s original airport, established in 1925, was located on Menindee Road, just past the railway line until a new airport was built on the current site in 1939. During her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the II visit in 1954, the Flying Doctor Service received a Royal prefix, making them the Royal Flying Doctor Service as they are known today. In 1986 the Airport got a new upgrade with the modern facilities, dedicated to Harry Keelan; this terminal is still in use today (2025). Regional Express (Rex Airlines) commenced departing and returning operations from the Broken Hill terminal in 2001 and commenced regional flights to Mildura, Victoria, in 2012. In 2005, “Connie” lands at the Broken Hill Airport; Connie is a Lockheed C-121C Super Constellation, Registration VH-EAG with a max takeoff weight of 48, 534kg, a wingspan of 37m, and 29m in length.
Many television shows have been recorded at the Broken Hill Airport with many celebrities visiting the site over the years, including Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark, Nicole Kidman, and Michael Caton.
In 2019, Airport Road was officially renamed to Pro Hart Way to honour the Late Pro Hart and to complement his artwork, it is on display inside and outside the terminal.
Source: Broken Hill City Council.
Established 1888 on the corner of Cobalt and Bromide Streets, Broken Hill, Far West NSW. No longer trading as a pub, but served me my first beer(s) in Broken Hill on a rock fossicking trip in 1971.
One of the things I love about my job is that I get to go to places that I normally would never go to.
Last week I was sent to Broken Hill to train some clients. Broken Hill is an inland mining city in the far west of outback New South Wales, Australia.
I had seen photos of these sculptures in Broken Hill that I really wanted to shoot. So I took my camera along for the adventure. The sculpture site is a major attraction within the Living Desert Reserve.
I was extremely lucky at sunset last week on Wednesday October the 3rd, where this massive storm came directly from the west and passed over Broken Hill. I managed to capture this panorama just before the storm passed over my head. I had minutes to capture this and then run for my life back to the car.I watched this storm approach me for at least 30 minutes and it was incredible. I then had to drive home in the dark with thunder and lightning bellowing around me. It was exhilarating and exciting.
This Thunderstorm made the news, as it brought much-needed drought relief to Broken Hill. The downpour struck and the town received 34.2 mm of rain overnight, double the amount of rain reported for the whole year to date.
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One always hopes to see Sturt's Desert Pea (Swainsona formosa ) in flower on trips West and I was anticipating a bit of exploration in search of some. Imagine my surprise at finding some by chance beside a footpath while driving around Broken Hill! A triptych of images courtesy of Pentax DA 10-17mm Fisheye and D-FA 50 Macro lenses.
Kintore headframe.
If there is a symbol that represents mining apart from the hammer and pick it would be the headframe.
A headframe is the structural frame that is above an underground mine shaft and this particular headframe is known as the Kintore headframe and was used at the Kintore shaft.
Kintore Shaft had two access levels and was in keeping with the style of early Broken Hill shafts and takes its name from the Earl of Kintore, who was the inaugural chairman of the Central Mine
Producing six million tons of ore between 1884 to 1940 the mine would later be taken over by Broken Hill South Ltd who would work the mine from 1944 till 1959.
Constructed of Oregon timber and supported with steel cross-braced rods the headframe was positioned on concrete pads for additional support.
With the passing of time the outdated buildings at Kintore were demolished and the headframe was moved to its current location in Blende Street in 1984.
The headframe allows visitors with a wonderful insight into the pioneering days of mining.
Broken, Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
After coming in from Sydney, SSR101 & SSR102 roll out of Broken Hill with 3SA3 to Bowmans on Wednesday 6th November 2019.
Beauty of a frosty morning. I'd been hoping for direct sunshine but the cloudy bright conditions opened up new possibilities. And the air temperature remained cool, so the frost didn't melt. Looking toward the Broken Hills in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan.
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This building was erected about 1888 for Gilbert Bros., saddlers. By the late 1890s, it was owned by Kidman Bros., butchers, and has been occupied by butchers since. The original shop fronts were replaced about 1940 and the verandah detail removed. The two small shops to the right, with the highly decorated parapets and original verandahs, are typical of those built in the city's early years.
Souce: City of Broken Hill.
Trees and grasses swamped by waters of the Menindee Lake system an oasis in the dry desert landscape of outback Australia
I saw this gorgeous boy waiting very patiently for his human to return!
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SCT008 & SCT009 work a very late 7GP1 out of Broken Hill after a crew change on Sunday 3rd November 2019.
Line of Lode Miner's Memorial and restaurant is a dramatic, iconic new structure on the edge of the mullock heap that dissects Broken Hill.
Mining has claimed more than 800 lives over the years at Broken Hill, and the dramatic Line of Lode Miner’s Memorial and Visitors Centre, overlooking the city, is a poignant monument to them all. The Line of Lode is one of the world’s largest bodies of ore, containing the silver, lead and zinc that made fortunes in this remote outback city. The striking architecturally designed memorial, which was opened in 2001, has the name of each miner who perished etched into freestanding glass panels within the high, rust-red steel walls. Passing through the monument is sobering: spend a while reflecting on the human tragedy that encompasses a key part of the city’s mining history. There are also spectacular views from the summit of the gigantic hill or mullock on which the memorial is built (in essence a 30m-high pile of mining waste material). The views are particularly spectacular at night.
QUBE Logistics RL309-RL310 operating empty containerised ore train #4503 from Port Pirie to Broken Hill, paralleling the RM Williams Way heading out of Jamestown in northern South Australia, on Friday July 26, 2024. The return loaded train will carry lead/zinc ore from the RASP mine in Broken Hill to Port Pirie (dark containers) and Port Adelaide (pink containers).
This train was previously operated by Bowmans Rail using leased CFCLA equipment, until the operation was purchased recently by QUBE in early July 2024.