Guards Compartment

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/9.0 · 1/4 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The guard's compartment inside motor car C7485, stored at the Eveleigh Paint Shop. Green-painted steel panels line the walls, scuffed and faded. A hand brake wheel is mounted between two windows. The Paint Shop served the NSW rail network until 1989, then became a heritage rolling stock store.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Guards Compartment
Series: Eveleigh Paint Shop
Catalogue: EPS-035
Process: Giclée
Captured: 19 May 2016
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/9.0
Shutter: 1/4 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 guards compartment at the rear of one of the heritage carriages at the Eveleigh Paint Shop is a small enclosed space at one end of the carriage body, separated from the passenger area by a timber-framed partition with a sliding door. Inside, a folding timber seat is hinged to the side wall, with a writing shelf below the window. A handbrake column rises from the floor at the rear corner, the wheel-style handle still in place. A small bell-push and a flag holder are fitted to the bulkhead. The window faces along the length of the train, giving the guard a sight line down the side of the carriages ahead. The compartment is the size of a phone booth, by design.

Guards compartments on the NSW Government Railways suburban and interurban fleet were where the rear-of-train guard travelled, monitored the train for safety, operated the rear handbrake when required, and signalled the driver via the train's communication systems. Each train ran with a guard until the role was progressively phased out through the late twentieth century. The compartment in this photograph is the working space of a job that no longer exists on the current network. The carriage is part of the Historic Electric Traction heritage collection at the Eveleigh Paint Shop.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A drafting chair sits on the gritty floor of the guard's compartment inside car C7485. Green-painted steel panels line the walls, scuffed and faded. A hand brake wheel is mounted between two narrow windows. Through the open doorway, another suburban carriage stands on the adjacent track, its corrugated aluminium skin catching flat light from the shed's high windows. Dust coats every surface.

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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