Arriving at the site late one night, things were looking promising… Fast-forward half an hour and my face is pressed up to the glass of the turbine hall windows. A large smile is creeping across my face as I make out the silhouette of a massive turbine… Continue reading »

Ashio: Japan’s largest copper producer for over 100 years, a forced labor camp for allied POWs during WW2 and the source of Japans worst ever industrial pollution incident and now an UrbEx wonderland. Power stations, refineries, houses, shops, mines and more, an entire mining town abandoned to the elements and those keen enough to visit. Continue reading »

Carved deep into the cliffs of some the most rugged country in Australia, access to this abandoned hydro power station is not a trivial exercise. Following in the footsteps of well known explorers such as Diode, Predator and dsankt, the following is a record of my exploration of ‘THE BARRON’. Continue reading »

100 years of Australian rail history and in the same condition as the day they were closed over 17 years ago, the Townsville railway workshops. Continue reading »