Air Conditioned Car

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/9.0 · 10s · ISO 800
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Blue tartan seats inside an air-conditioned carriage at the Eveleigh Paint Shop, an ashtray still fitted beneath the nearest armrest. These cars entered service in 1948 on the Newcastle Flyer between Sydney and Newcastle, and later air-conditioned sets ran to Albury, Brisbane and the NSW Central West.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Air Conditioned Car
Series: Eveleigh Paint Shop
Catalogue: EPS-032
Process: Giclée
Captured: 19 May 2016
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/9.0
Shutter: 10s s
ISO: 800
Focal length: 24 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

An air-conditioned passenger car at the Eveleigh Paint Shop sits on a workshop track with its roof-mounted condenser units visible from the side. The condensers are housed in raised steel hoods running along the centre of the roof, each unit feeding a section of the carriage below. Vents along the inside of the roof carry the cooled air into the passenger compartment. The body is painted in a stainless-and-grey interstate livery, breaking from the chocolate-and-cream of the suburban fleet. The carriage has continuous side fluting along the lower body panels, the kind of pattern that came in with the postwar stainless-steel stock. Double-leaf sliding doors at the end vestibules.

Air-conditioning came to the NSW long-distance passenger fleet in the postwar decades as a comfort upgrade over the earlier non-conditioned interstate cars. The cooling equipment was powered by the on-board generators in the consist's power van or by direct electrical connection from the locomotive on services that ran behind electrically-powered engines. The carriage in this photograph is from the long-distance fleet now held at the Eveleigh Paint Shop. Its working life ended when the long-distance NSW services were rationalised through the 1980s and 1990s, and it is now part of the Historic Electric Traction heritage holdings.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Blue tartan upholstery lines both sides of the aisle in tight rows. The fabric holds its colour but the weave is pulling apart at the edges. Timber armrests sit dark with grime. Beneath them, small built-in ashtrays. Graffiti covers the vestibule doors at the far end. Through the windows, other carriages crowd close, their paintwork sprayed over. Light enters flat and grey.

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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