4052 Exterior

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 21mm · f/9.0 · 2.5s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A heavy carriage sits nose-out on the tracks inside the Eveleigh Paint Shop at North Eveleigh, its rust-red flank riveted down its length and its front couplings and electrical connectors exposed. A yellow 'Please Close The Door' sign is taped inside the central door window. The concrete floor is marked with yellow lines either side of a track pit in the foreground, and a white support pillar stencilled 'P1 27' stands to one side, with blue graffiti across the grey corrugated wall behind. A silver passenger car waits further back beneath the exposed roof beams.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: 4052 Exterior
Series: Eveleigh Paint Shop
Catalogue: EPS-001
Process: Giclée
Captured: 14 March 2016
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/9.0
Shutter: 2.5s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 21 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

Carriage 4052 at Eveleigh Paint Shop is a single steel-bodied suburban car, sitting on a parallel track to the Centurion. Where the Centurion is timber-bodied, 4052 is all steel. The body is painted in the same chocolate-and-cream NSW Government Railways livery, but the panels show the rivet lines of riveted steel construction rather than the timber-board joins of the older carriage. Doors are double-leaf sliding, fitted with the original window glass. The exterior has been restored where necessary but is largely original. Bogies under the carriage are the heavier steel-framed type that came in with the all-steel build.

Carriage 4052 was built in 1924 as part of Australia's first all-steel electric train fleet. The introduction of steel bodies to Sydney's suburban network was a major engineering shift. Steel was heavier than timber but stronger, harder to break in collisions, and less prone to fire. The first all-steel cars went into service in 1926 alongside the network electrification. They displaced the older timber stock over the following decade. 4052 is one of the survivors of that original steel fleet, retired from active service decades ago and now held at Eveleigh as a heritage exhibit. The build year is stamped into the metalwork in several places.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A riveted steel carriage sits square on the tracks inside the Eveleigh Paint Shop. Red-oxide paint covers the body panels. The rear door is closed, its small window catching flat overhead light from the shed's steel trusses. Coupling chains hang loose beneath the frame. Red-capped brake hoses rest disconnected. A silver stainless-steel carriage stands on the adjacent track to the left. Graffiti marks the corrugated iron wall to the right.

Brett Patman

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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05 SIZE GUIDE

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