Heading out to the Lake Margaret power station after a nice morning snowfall.
The Mt Lyell Mining & Railway company built the ABT system equipped rack and pinion railway and soon followed that marvellous innovation up with this 1912-1914 horizontal axis Pelton wheel turbine and woodstave pipeline equipped hydropower scheme.
The original station expanded from 4 to 7 turbines and then a complete extra powerhouse was installed downstream in 1931. Original machinery is still proudly roaring and the two woodstave pipelines have been replaced....with wood!
Another interesting feature of the site is the 1914 built village where people lived and thrived for decades that now stands dormant, empty verandahs still facing the powerhouse.