Above B Electrical Workshop

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Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 0.4s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

An overhead gantry crane spans the B Electrical Workshop at Wangi Power Station, with the boiler house and turbine hall visible beyond. The B Station electrical workshop maintained the machinery of the three 60 MW Parsons turbines and Babcock & Wilcox pulverised-coal boilers.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Above B Electrical Workshop
Series: Wangi Power Station
Catalogue: WPS-003
Process: Giclée
Captured: 27 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 0.4s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 24 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Wangi Wangi, 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

Wangi Wangi, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The level above the B Electrical Workshop at Wangi Power Station is a small mezzanine space, accessed by a steel-grating stair from the main workshop floor below. The mezzanine holds the storage racks for the workshop's longer items: lengths of cable, conduit, busbar, and the larger spare parts that did not fit on the working benches downstairs. The racking is heavy steel angle, painted in the pale industrial green that runs across the rest of the plant. A timber floor over the mezzanine framing creaks underfoot. A wire-mesh guardrail runs along the open side of the mezzanine, facing back down into the workshop below. Light comes through a single window in the side wall and through the mesh of the guardrail.

The B Electrical Workshop served the electrical maintenance for the B Station side of the plant, handling motor rewinding, control gear repair, and high-voltage switchgear work. The mezzanine in this photograph held the longer items that the workshop's standard benches and shelves could not accommodate. After B Station closed on 31 October 1986, the workshop and its mezzanine were wound down with the rest of the operation. The racking and the storage residue have stayed in place since.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Concrete columns rise in rows through a vast industrial hall, riveted steel beams bolting them together at midsection. The floor is gone in places, exposing a lower level of open bays and raised platforms. A grid wall of glass and concrete panels runs the full length of the right side, filtering grey light deep into the space. Rust stains bleed down every surface. Graffiti marks the base of the nearest column. The air looks thick with mineral dust.

Brett Patman

The series

Wangi Power Station

51 photographs

About a thousand men built Wangi Power Station, on the western shore of Lake Macquarie. They were Hunter Valley locals and post-war Italian migrants, many living in a tent city on the lakeshore through the build. By 1957 they'd put up the main building, 228 metres long and eleven storeys high in triple-brick over a riveted steel frame, with three 76-metre concrete chimneys behind it.

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