Power Van

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 28mm · f/8.0 · 0.4s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A power van at the Eveleigh Paint Shop, stainless steel roof ribs running its length, the corrugated surface thick with grey dust. Graffiti marks the lower panels in reds and blues. Beyond it, the domed roofs of older carriages. Heritage rolling stock storage since the Paint Shop closed in 1989.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Power Van
Series: Eveleigh Paint Shop
Catalogue: EPS-014
Process: Giclée
Captured: 14 March 2016
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 0.4s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 28 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 Power Van at Eveleigh Paint Shop is a self-powered carriage that supplied electricity to passenger trains running long-distance services. The van is a PHN-class vehicle, painted in the steel-grey and stainless livery of the Southern Aurora interstate express. Its exterior shows the access doors for the diesel generators inside, the fuel filler caps, and the air-conditioning condenser units mounted along the roof. The lettering on the side reads SOUTHERN AURORA in large block capitals. The carriage is on its own track in the workshop, not currently coupled to anything. The roof-mounted ventilators are the most distinctive feature from the side.

The Southern Aurora was the Sydney-to-Melbourne overnight express, operating from 1962 until 1986. The train carried passengers in air-conditioned sleepers, with full dining-car service, on what was then the premier interstate rail link. The Power Van in this photograph supplied electricity to the rest of the train: lighting, climate control, kitchen equipment, all powered from on-board generators. After the Southern Aurora was withdrawn from service, the Power Van was retired with the rest of the consist. It is now held at Eveleigh Paint Shop as part of the rolling-stock heritage collection. The diesel generators inside are no longer running. The van's last working night was in 1986.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Stainless steel roof ribs run the length of a PHA-class power van, its corrugated surface thick with grey dust. Graffiti marks the lower panels in reds and blues. Beyond it, the domed roofs of older timber carriages sit heavy under the steel truss framework of the Eveleigh Paint Shop. Columns repeat deep into the shed. Light enters pale and flat through the sawtooth roof.

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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