Boiler House Basement A To B Station

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Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 1/2 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Rows of rusted steel columns run the length of the boiler house basement at Wangi Power Station. Concrete plinths rise from the debris-covered floor. Multi-storey window bays line both walls. The space stretches deep into the structure.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Boiler House Basement A To B Station
Series: Wangi Power Station
Catalogue: WPS-012
Process: Giclée
Captured: 27 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/2 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 boiler-house basement at Wangi Power Station, photographed from the A Station end looking through to the B Station end, runs as a continuous concrete-floored space underneath the boiler firing levels above. The basement is structured with regular rows of concrete columns and steel cross-bracing. The bulkhead between A Station and B Station shows as a slight change in the column spacing at the midpoint of the run. Ductwork and pipework hang along the underside of the upper floor in long parallel runs; most of the major plant has been removed, leaving the brackets and the smaller-gauge instrument tubing in place. Daylight comes through floor gratings and through small windows in the perimeter wall.

Wangi's ash-handling plant ran in the boiler-house basement: the conveyors, the pulveriser systems, the bottom-ash hoppers, the fly-ash collection. The A Station end carried the system that handled the residue of the stoker-fired boilers above; the B Station end carried the pulverised-coal system. The plant ran continuously through every shift across the working life of the station from 1958 to the closure of B Station on 31 October 1986. Equipment was removed between 1995 and 1997. The basement reads as a working ash-handling level emptied of its working plant.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Steel columns rise in rows through the basement level beneath Wangi's A to B station boiler house. Concrete plinths sit where heavy machinery was bolted to the floor. The equipment is gone. Rust streaks every beam and crossmember. Overhead, steel gantries and ceiling panels form a dense grid, and pale light filters through tall window bays on both sides. Weeds push through cracks in the dirt-covered floor.

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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05 SIZE GUIDE

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