Power Station Riser

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/10 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The conveyor corridor at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories, running the full depth of the frame to a single vanishing point. Large-diameter pipes line the left wall beside structural steel beams, with a yellow-painted pipe tracing the upper right and diffused light from grimy windows on the concrete floor. The corridor carried coal from the wet section to the power station bunkers.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Power Station Riser
Series: Morwell Power Station
Catalogue: MPS-018
Process: Giclée
Captured: 30 March 2017
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/10 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: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Morwell, Victoria, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The conveyor corridor at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories runs the full depth of the frame toward a single vanishing point. Large-diameter pipes run the length of the left wall, flanked by structural steel beams. Diffused light from grimy windows falls across the concrete floor. A yellow-painted pipe traces the upper right of the corridor. The parallel runs of pipe, beam and window pull the eye straight down the centre. This is a service route rather than a room, the corridor that carried coal from the wet section through to the power station bunkers, lined with the pipework that ran alongside the load.

The corridor formed part of the coal-handling system that fed the complex. Coal was conveyed in from the west and distributed to either the power station or the briquette factories, with the output, electricity or briquettes, leaving from the eastern side. The dredgers and conveyors were Australian-built to a Yallourn-derived design, with the German supply chain limited to the briquette presses. The original 1948 coal conveyor from the open cut to the briquette works was designed as the longest of its kind in Australia at the time, over 4,000 feet, about three-quarters of a mile. Brett photographed the conveyor corridor on 30 March 2017.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The riser corridor gave access to the steam valve gear that fed the turbines. The pipes are still in their colour-coded paint, though whatever the colours meant retired with the last shift.

Brett Patman

The series

Morwell Power Station

1949-2014 · 79 photographs

The State Electricity Commission of Victoria built Morwell as the centrepiece of its postwar plan to sever Victoria's reliance on black coal from New South Wales. Construction ran from 1949 to 1959; electricity production commenced in December 1958 and the first commercial briquettes followed in December 1959. With the demolition of Old Yallourn between 1995 and 1999, Morwell became the earliest surviving large-scale Victorian state-grid power station, registered on the Victorian Heritage Register as H2377 on 1 March 2018.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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