Number 2 Crusher

A 'N°2 Crusher' sign and the red unit numbers 21 and 22 mark a point along this walkway in the wet section of Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories. Shaker screens line the left and cog roll crushers stand on the right. Grated metal flooring runs the length of the corridor, with overhead pipework converging toward a bright window at the far end. Rust and corrosion have worked into the metal surfaces across the full width of the passage. The frame is a straight run down the corridor, the machinery packed in tight on both sides.

The wet section was the front of the briquetting line, where shaker screens, hammer mills and cog roll crushers prepared the coal before pressing. The Victorian Heritage Register records the plant as the only remaining intact assemblage of mid twentieth century briquetting machinery in Victoria, naming its wet sections, hammer mills, shaker screens and conveyor cascades. The line drew on Yallourn coal railed across the interconnecting line, because Morwell brown coal proved unsuitable for briquetting. Brett photographed the Number 2 Crusher walkway on 15 April 2017, in the closed briquette factory before the demolition program began.