Worn vinyl bench seats inside Driving Control Trailer Car D4052 at Eveleigh Paint Shop, light through part-closed shutters.

4052 Interior

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/9.0 · 2s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The interior of Driving Control Trailer Car D4052, worn green vinyl bench seats lining a narrow aisle at Eveleigh Paint Shop. Light filters through part-closed venetian shutters in diagonal bands across the seat backs. A NON SMOKING sign is fixed above the door at the far end of the carriage.

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4052 Interior at Eveleigh Paint Shop, dust lingers on the seats of Driving Control Trailer Car D4052, its silence a stark contrast to the decades of movement it once knew.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: 4052 Interior
Series: Eveleigh Paint Shop
Catalogue: EPS-031
Process: Giclée
Captured: 19 May 2016
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/9.0
Shutter: 2s 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 interior of carriage 4052 at the Eveleigh Paint Shop is a long passenger compartment in the chocolate-and-cream NSW Government Railways livery, with rows of double-bench seats running down both sides of a central aisle. The seats are vinyl-upholstered, faded in places where decades of use have worn the colour back. The aisle floor is laid in linoleum, mostly intact but lifting at some of the joins. The ceiling is curved timber panelling, painted cream, with original fittings: hatrack racks, ventilator grilles, and dome-shaped light fittings spaced along the centre line. The windows along both sides are the original sash-and-louvre arrangement, glazing complete. Daylight enters from the workshop's sawtooth roof above the carriage.

D4052 was built in 1929 as Standard Trailer Car T4547 and fitted with a driver's cab in 1937. The interior in this photograph has been preserved more than restored; the upholstery, the floor, and the fittings are the wear-in patterns of decades of working service. D4052 was retired from regular service and is now part of the Historic Electric Traction heritage collection at Eveleigh Paint Shop. The interior is the part of the carriage that most clearly carries the working life of the vehicle: every panel and fitting was touched by a commuter, a guard, or a fitter at some point across the years.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Dust lingers on the seats of Driving Control Trailer Car D4052, its silence a stark contrast to the decades of movement it once knew. The venetian shutters along the windows, designed to shield passengers from the harsh Australian sun, now hang partially drawn, filtering light into the worn interior. Unlike its original configuration, this car has been fitted with double-deck trailer-style seats, a later addition to extend its service life.

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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