Boiler House Upper Level

The upper level of the boiler house at Wangi Power Station looks down across the empty boiler bay from the catwalk above. The view takes in the floor of the bay, the empty concrete plinths where the boilers stood, and the bulkhead at the far end where the boiler house meets the turbine hall. The catwalk itself is steel grating set against the inside face of the structural framing, with handrails on the open side. The structural framing rises to the roof above in a regular pattern of heavy columns and cross-bracing. Daylight comes down from clerestory openings near the top of the building, falling unevenly across the bay below.

The upper level of the Wangi boiler house carried the safety-valve risers, the upper-drum access for the A Station cross-drum boilers, and the access for the pulverised-coal feed system on the B Station side. Operators came up here through every shift to check gauges and clear blockages. After A Station retired in 1985 and B Station closed in 1986, the boilers were left in place for nearly a decade before the 1995 to 1997 equipment-removal program took them out. The upper level today reads as a structural shell with the catwalks intact and the working plant gone.