Boiler House B Station Looking Towards A

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Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 1/3 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The B Station boiler house at Wangi Power Station, looking toward A Station. Three Babcock & Wilcox pulverised-coal boilers once occupied this space. An 8-metre drop to the level below; 40 metres to the roof above. Generating equipment was removed between 1995 and 1997.

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Title: Boiler House B Station Looking Towards A
Series: Wangi Power Station
Catalogue: WPS-011
Process: Giclée
Captured: 27 November 2015
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Wangi Wangi, New South Wales, Australia

Where this was photographed

Wangi Wangi, New South Wales, Australia

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About this print

The boiler house at Wangi Power Station, photographed from the B Station end looking back toward the A Station end, opens out into a tall single volume bounded by the structural steel frame of the building. The three pulverised-coal boilers that once stood on the B Station side have been removed; the steel hold-down patterns in the concrete floor mark where they sat. Beyond the bulkhead arch, the A Station bay carries the same arrangement: empty plinths where the six smaller stoker-fired boilers once stood, the structural steel intact above. Catwalks at multiple levels run the length of both bays. Light comes down through clerestory openings in the upper roof.

A Station and B Station were built sequentially under one continuous roof at Wangi Power Station. A Station's six Babcock & Wilcox cross-drum stoker-fired boilers, each rated at 180,000 lb/h, fed the three 50 megawatt Parsons turbines that came on line between 1957 and 1958. B Station's three Babcock & Wilcox single-drum pulverised-coal boilers, each rated at 550,000 lb/h, fed the three 60 megawatt turbines commissioned 1958 to 1960. B Station was Australia's first pulverised-coal power station. All of the boilers were removed during the 1995 to 1997 equipment-removal program.

From the field notes

Concrete columns run deep into the B Station boiler house, receding toward A Station at the far end. The scale is enormous. Reinforced plinths rise from an eight-metre drop below floor level, stripped of every piece of machinery. Clerestory windows push flat grey light across bare walls. Graffiti marks the lower concrete panels. Steel trusses span the ceiling overhead, bolted to thick crossbeams. Dust and rubble cover every horizontal surface.

— 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 its decommissioning in 1986. Coal-fired, brought online to relieve rolling blackouts that hit New South Wales through the late 1950s, the station ran for 28 years before closure. The plant remains intact on its lakeshore site. Brett photographed across multiple visits between 2016 and 2018.

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Positronic S.

9 March 2022

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I own Positronic Solar. We are in the business of shutting down coal fired power stations. These are gifts to the boys for a year where we installed 3MW of solar and generated 50GWh of clean energy. Boys haven't seen them yet but every rep coming in bearing goodies in the past week is blown away by the quality of the photography and production