4052 Drivers Controls at Eveleigh Paint Shop, inside the cab of D4052, pale green paint covers every surface.
4052 Drivers Controls at Eveleigh Paint Shop, inside the cab of D4052, pale green paint covers every surface.

4052 Drivers Controls

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D810
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/9.0 · 3s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Inside the decaying Eveleigh Paint Shop, the intricate driver's controls of locomotive 4052 stand dormant. Levers and gauges bear the marks of a working past, now still.

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4052 Drivers Controls at Eveleigh Paint Shop, inside the cab of D4052, pale green paint covers every surface.4052 Drivers Controls at Eveleigh Paint Shop, inside the cab of D4052, pale green paint covers every surface.4052 Drivers Controls at Eveleigh Paint Shop, inside the cab of D4052, pale green paint covers every surface.4052 Drivers Controls at Eveleigh Paint Shop, inside the cab of D4052, pale green paint covers every surface.4052 Drivers Controls at Eveleigh Paint Shop, inside the cab of D4052, pale green paint covers every surface.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
4052 Drivers Controls
Series
Eveleigh Paint Shop
Catalogue
EPS-030
Process
Giclée
Captured
19 May 2016
Camera
NIKON D810
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/9.0
Shutter
3s s
ISO
100
Focal length
14 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
290 × 200 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 driver's controls in carriage 4052 at the Eveleigh Paint Shop sit at the front of the leading cab, a steel-framed panel built into the inside of the front bulkhead. The main controller is a circular dial with a notched handle for the traction power steps, mounted on the left of the panel. The air brake handle is set on the right, marked with a pressure scale running from the release position through the service applications to the emergency stop. Smaller gauges between the two main controls show the line current, the brake pipe pressure, and the main reservoir pressure. A timber driver's seat is set behind the panel, with a footrest and a stowable backrest. The cab window faces forward, glazed in laminated safety glass.

Carriage 4052 was built in 1924 as part of Sydney's all-steel suburban fleet, in the period leading up to the network's full electrification in 1926. The driver's controls in this photograph are the original electric-traction equipment installed with the rest of the cab fittings at build. The arrangement set the standard for NSW suburban driver's cabs for the next several decades. Drivers ran the carriage from this position when 4052 was at the leading end of a set; the cab at the opposite end of the carriage carried an identical mirror-image arrangement. 4052 is now part of the Historic Electric Traction heritage collection at the Paint Shop.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Inside the cab of D4052, pale green paint covers every surface. A vertical brake stand and throttle column rise from the steel floor, their cast-iron bodies heavy with corrosion. Twin pressure gauges sit at eye level, needles still. Pipework runs along the walls to valves and junction boxes. A single windscreen wiper rests against louvred glass. The air smells like cold metal and old grease.

Brett Patman

Eveleigh Paint Shop

The series

Eveleigh Paint Shop

2016 · 49 photographs

George Cowdery worked on the Britannia Bridge with Robert Stephenson in 1847. John Whitton, Engineer-in-Chief for NSW Railways, brought him to NSW in 1863, where he supervised the colony's first railway tunnels at Picton and Mittagong. The brick main wing of the Paint Shop was completed in 1887, eight rail roads under a sawtooth south-light roof.

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07 MORE FROM EVELEIGH PAINT SHOP

48 other prints in this series

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Pit at Eveleigh Paint Shop, beneath the steel and timber, this inspection pit once echoed with the steady rhythm of tools and voices as workmen toiled to keep Sydney’s railway fleet in motion.
Pit $100.00
Centurion at Eveleigh Paint Shop, green leather seat backs line both sides of a narrow central aisle.
Centurion $100.00
Interurban Passenger Seating at Eveleigh Paint Shop, two pairs of reversible seats face each other inside carriage 3102.
Interurban Passenger Seating $100.00
Guards Compartment at Eveleigh Paint Shop, a drafting chair sits on the gritty floor of the guard's compartment inside car C7485.
Guards Compartment $100.00
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