Sputnik at Eveleigh Paint Shop, green leather bench seats line both sides of carriage 4790, their cast-iron armrests decorated with pressed circular motifs.
Sputnik at Eveleigh Paint Shop, green leather bench seats line both sides of carriage 4790, their cast-iron armrests decorated with pressed circular motifs.

Sputnik

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Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
21mm · f/8.0 · 25s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A spherical light fixture, nicknamed 'Sputnik', hangs within the derelict Eveleigh Paint Shop. Peeling paint and abandoned industrial remnants surround this relic of the former railway workshops.

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Sputnik at Eveleigh Paint Shop, green leather bench seats line both sides of carriage 4790, their cast-iron armrests decorated with pressed circular motifs.Sputnik at Eveleigh Paint Shop, green leather bench seats line both sides of carriage 4790, their cast-iron armrests decorated with pressed circular motifs.Sputnik at Eveleigh Paint Shop, green leather bench seats line both sides of carriage 4790, their cast-iron armrests decorated with pressed circular motifs.Sputnik at Eveleigh Paint Shop, green leather bench seats line both sides of carriage 4790, their cast-iron armrests decorated with pressed circular motifs.Sputnik at Eveleigh Paint Shop, green leather bench seats line both sides of carriage 4790, their cast-iron armrests decorated with pressed circular motifs.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Sputnik
Series
Eveleigh Paint Shop
Catalogue
EPS-020
Process
Giclée
Captured
14 March 2016
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
25s s
ISO
100
Focal length
21 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

A vintage Sputnik-style overhead light fitting at the Eveleigh Paint Shop hangs from the ceiling of one of the heritage carriages, a chromed steel hub with multiple arms radiating out into individual lamp holders at the end of each arm. The arms are angled so that the lamps face outward in a hemisphere around the central hub. The lamp shades are small frosted-glass globes; some are intact, some are missing. The fixture is wired to a single ceiling rose above. The chrome on the hub has held its shine; the brass on the arm joints has tarnished to a darker tone. The fitting hangs at a height that would have cleared a standing passenger walking the centre aisle.

Multi-arm overhead light fittings of this kind came into NSW Government Railways passenger interiors through the postwar decades as decorative-but-functional replacements for the plainer single-lamp fittings of the earlier carriages. The Sputnik nickname comes from the resemblance to the satellite of the same name, launched in 1957, and was widely used for any multi-arm radial light fitting of the period. The fitting in this photograph is one of several in a heritage carriage held at the Eveleigh Paint Shop. It is original to the carriage at the time of its postwar refit.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Green leather bench seats line both sides of carriage 4790, their cast-iron armrests decorated with pressed circular motifs. The aisle floor is bare, scuffed smooth. Venetian blinds sit at different heights across the windows. Light falls in uneven bands across the upholstery. One seat lies upturned in the foreground, its underside exposed. A "No Smoking" sign hangs near the far end. The ceiling curves overhead, cream paint flaking from riveted steel panels.

Brett Patman

Eveleigh Paint Shop

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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07 MORE FROM EVELEIGH PAINT SHOP

48 other prints in this series

All prints
Pit at Eveleigh Paint Shop, beneath the steel and timber, this inspection pit once echoed with the steady rhythm of tools and voices as workmen toiled to keep Sydney’s railway fleet in motion.
Pit $100.00
Centurion at Eveleigh Paint Shop, green leather seat backs line both sides of a narrow central aisle.
Centurion $100.00
Interurban Passenger Seating at Eveleigh Paint Shop, two pairs of reversible seats face each other inside carriage 3102.
Interurban Passenger Seating $100.00
Guards Compartment at Eveleigh Paint Shop, a drafting chair sits on the gritty floor of the guard's compartment inside car C7485.
Guards Compartment $100.00
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