Bunker Conveyor
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D810
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/5 · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
A vast conveyor belt system stands dormant within Morwell Power Station. Rusting metal and dust cover the machinery, once vital for transporting coal. The structure now represents a silent industrial past.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Bunker Conveyor
- Series
- Morwell Power Station
- Catalogue
- MPS-011
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 30 March 2017
- Camera
- NIKON D810
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 1/5 s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 14 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Morwell, Victoria, Australia
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia
About this print
A steel-grate maintenance walkway runs the full length of the conveyor gallery, narrowing to a vanishing point deep inside the structure. To the left, heavy rubber belt sits slack across troughing idlers, coated in coal dust and corrosion. Yellow paint peels from the support frame. Large multi-pane windows line the right wall, diffusing grey light across the metal surfaces. The air looks thick. Everything carries a film of fine brown grit.
Brett Patman
The series
Morwell Power Station
The Morwell Power Station and Briquette Works was an integrated cogeneration plant in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, built by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria from 1949 and operated from 1956 to February 2014. At peak it produced 180 MW of electricity and over a million tonnes of briquettes a year for the Victorian solid fuel market. A Boxing Day 2003 fire destroyed the conveyor feeding three of the four briquette plants; the conveyor was never repaired. The plant closed for good after a 12 February 2014 fire. Heritage Victoria added the site to the Victorian Heritage Register in February 2018 as the state's earliest surviving large-scale grid power station, but later granted a permit to demolish the main station while keeping the briquette factories. The two 94-metre chimneys were brought down on 20 February 2021. The site contained more than 10,000 cubic metres of asbestos.
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