Boiler House Looking From A Station To B

Looking from the A Station side of the boiler house at Wangi Power Station toward the B Station side, the photograph takes in the full length of the boiler hall. The steel framework is the dominant element: the floor-to-roof structural columns, the cross-bracing, the catwalks that ran along the boiler levels. The boilers themselves have been removed; what is left is the structural envelope they sat inside, with the bolt patterns in the concrete showing where the major plant once stood. Daylight comes down through high windows and through openings in the roof where panels have been removed. The far wall is the bulkhead between the boiler house and the turbine hall.

A Station and B Station shared this single boiler hall under one continuous roof. A Station, the three 50 megawatt stoker-fired units commissioned 1957 to 1958, occupied the nearer end of the bay; B Station, the three 60 megawatt pulverised-coal units commissioned 1958 to 1960, occupied the far end. The pulverised-coal technology at B Station was the first of its kind in any Australian power station. Generating equipment at both stations was removed between 1995 and 1997, several years after the plant's formal decommissioning in 1989. The structural shell, the catwalks, and the column grid are what remain.