Eveleigh Paint Shop Forecourt

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/9.0 · 1/6 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The forecourt of the Eveleigh Paint Shop, a former railway workshop building in Sydney, now sits empty. Stained concrete and industrial decay define the space where locomotives once received their colour.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Eveleigh Paint Shop Forecourt
Series: Eveleigh Paint Shop
Catalogue: EPS-006
Process: Giclée
Captured: 14 March 2016
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/9.0
Shutter: 1/6 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 24 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 forecourt outside the Eveleigh Paint Shop is the broad paved area at the front of the workshop, where carriages were shunted into position before entering the working bays inside. The forecourt floor is concrete-and-aggregate paving, the original surface laid when the workshop opened in 1887. Rail tracks run across the paving and converge toward the main entrance bays, the steel rails set flush into the surface. The 1912 iron-clad extension is visible to one side, the 1887 brick main wing to the other. The forecourt opens onto the rest of the North Eveleigh rail yard. Carriages standing in the forecourt are caught between the outside light and the sawtooth-roof daylight of the workshop interior.

The forecourt was the staging area where carriages waited their turn for finishing work. Each carriage moved in from the broader Carriage Works yard, paused in the forecourt while the workshop crew prepared the bay it was destined for, and then ran through one of the main entrance roads into the building. The arrangement was the standard for any large heritage railway workshop: a buffer space between the open yard and the controlled interior. The Eveleigh Paint Shop forecourt has not been substantially rebuilt since the workshop opened. It is now part of the Redfern North Eveleigh Precinct Renewal area.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Decommissioned CityRail carriages sit on parallel tracks beneath the Eveleigh Paint Shop's sawtooth roof. Steel trusses and cast-iron columns repeat in long rows, drawing the space deep into the shed. Graffiti covers the stainless steel flanks of the newer rolling stock. To the right, an older wooden-bodied carriage sits lower on its bogies, brown paint flaking from its end panel. Pendant lamps hang from their original fittings. The concrete floor between the rails is bare, oil-stained, quiet.

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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