3102 Main Passenger Car

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/9.0 · 30s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The interior of Car 3102, its chocolate and cream livery still legible. Green vinyl seats run in two rows down the central aisle, stamped with the PTC NSW insignia. Stored at the Eveleigh Paint Shop, which finished NSW carriages until 1989 and now houses heritage rolling stock.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: 3102 Main Passenger Car
Series: Eveleigh Paint Shop
Catalogue: EPS-027
Process: Giclée
Captured: 19 May 2016
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/9.0
Shutter: 30s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 297 × 210 mm
Location: Eveleigh, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Eveleigh, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The main passenger compartment of carriage 3102 at the Eveleigh Paint Shop runs the length of the body between the end vestibules, a single open saloon with rows of bench seats lining both sides of a centre aisle. The benches are timber-framed, vinyl-padded, and arranged in pairs along the length of the carriage. The aisle is wide enough to walk down with luggage. Brass handrails run along the top edge of each bench. The ceiling is curved timber panelling, painted cream, with the original dome-shaped light fittings spaced down the centre line. Sliding windows along both sides of the carriage have brass turn-handles in the lower frame. The chocolate-and-cream NSW Government Railways paint runs along the bulkheads.

Carriage 3102 was built in the 1920s and electrified along with the rest of Sydney's suburban network in 1926. The main passenger compartment in this photograph is the working volume of the carriage, where the bulk of commuters travelled on every trip across decades of service. The bench-seat arrangement is the converted layout that replaced an earlier compartment-style fit at some point in the carriage's working life. 3102 is now part of the Historic Electric Traction heritage collection at the Eveleigh Paint Shop, retired from regular service and held for restoration and display.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Green vinyl seats run in two rows down the centre aisle of Car 3102. The leather is scuffed and cracked, stamped with circular PTC NSW insignia now barely legible. Timber armrests hold a dull sheen where sunlight falls through the windows. Pressed-metal louvre shutters sit half open. Cream and chocolate paint clings to the upper panels. The air looks thick, still, heavy with dust.

Brett Patman

The series

Eveleigh Paint Shop

49 photographs

Eveleigh Paint Shop is the carriage paint shop of the Eveleigh Railway Workshops, on the north side of the main line at Redfern in Sydney. Built in 1886 and 1887, it painted, lettered and trimmed the carriages of the New South Wales Government Railways, and stayed in railway use until the Carriage Works closed in 1989. The brick wing is about 130 metres long, eight bays and six roads under a sawtooth roof on cast iron columns, and steam pipes were laid under the floor to dry the paint.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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