Wet Section Western End

The western face of the wet sections at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories presents a brick facade where the rising conveyors of the briquette factory and the power station diverge to either side. Three tall multi-paned windows dominate the central wall, flanked by conical rusted ventilation stacks along the roofline. A stencilled 'Visitors carpark' marking sits near the base of the wall, and cracked concrete expansion joints run across the forecourt below. The view is square to the building, the symmetry of the central windows set against the rust streaking down from the stacks and the broken ground out front.

From this western end, coal was conveyed into the site and distributed to either the power station or the briquette factories, with electricity or briquettes leaving from the eastern side. The coal conveyor running from the open cut to the briquette works had been designed in 1948 as the longest of its kind in Australia at the time, over 4,000 feet, about three-quarters of a mile. The dredgers and conveyors were Australian-built to a Yallourn-derived design, with the German supply chain confined to the briquette presses. Brett photographed the western end of the wet sections on 14 April 2017, in the closed complex before the demolition program began.