B Station Looking Towards B Mechanical Workshop

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 1/40 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The interior of Wangi Power Station's B Station looks out to the B Mechanical Workshop. Rusting machinery and decaying infrastructure define this forgotten industrial space.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: B Station Looking Towards B Mechanical Workshop
Series: Wangi Power Station
Catalogue: WPS-008
Process: Giclée
Captured: 27 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/40 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: National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia

02 LOCATION

Wangi Wangi, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

Looking from the B Station bay at Wangi Power Station toward the B Mechanical Workshop, the view crosses the empty boiler-house floor toward the workshop building set off to one side of the main plant. The boiler-house floor in the foreground is concrete, with the steel hold-down patterns visible where the three pulverised-coal boilers stood. The workshop building beyond is steel-clad, with corrugated iron walls and a low pitched roof. A roller door at one end of the workshop is partly raised. The structural framing of the boiler house carries the upper part of the photograph; the workshop is at floor level, the bay between the two reading as a single working space connected by a short access run.

The B Mechanical Workshop served the maintenance work specific to B Station, the pulverised-coal half of the plant. Its proximity to the boilers it served kept the response time short for the routine repair work. After B Station closed on 31 October 1986, the workshop wound down with the rest of the plant. Wangi's main building has been in the hands of I.J. McDonald Pty Ltd since 1998 under a stalled redevelopment proposal; the building waits.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

From this vantage point inside the B Station boiler house, the vast scale of Wangi Power Station reveals itself. In the distance, the coal bunkers mark the starting point of a once meticulously coordinated fuel system, where coal was delivered, stored, and fed into the roaring boilers below.

Brett Patman

The series

Wangi Power Station

2016–2018 · 51 photographs

Wangi Power Station ran on the western shore of Lake Macquarie from 1958 until B Station closed in 1986. Two stations under one roof, brought online to break the rolling blackouts that hit NSW through the late 1950s. The complex was listed on the NSW State Heritage Register in 1999.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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