Boiler House Walkway at Wangi Power Station, a long corridor runs between massive concrete columns and the brick.
Boiler House Walkway at Wangi Power Station, a long corridor runs between massive concrete columns and the brick.

Boiler House Walkway

Provenance

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

A narrow walkway in the boiler house at Wangi Power Station, running between the steel columns and the wall separating the boiler house from the turbine hall. The main building stretches 228 metres along the western shore of Lake Macquarie, with 11 storeys to its 41-metre roof.

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Boiler House Walkway at Wangi Power Station, a long corridor runs between massive concrete columns and the brick.Boiler House Walkway at Wangi Power Station, a long corridor runs between massive concrete columns and the brick.Boiler House Walkway at Wangi Power Station, a long corridor runs between massive concrete columns and the brick.Boiler House Walkway at Wangi Power Station, a long corridor runs between massive concrete columns and the brick.Boiler House Walkway at Wangi Power Station, a long corridor runs between massive concrete columns and the brick.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Boiler House Walkway
Series
Wangi Power Station
Catalogue
WPS-016
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

A steel walkway in the Wangi Power Station boiler house runs along one of the upper levels of the hall, set against the structural framing with handrails on the open side. The walkway is steel grating, the kind used throughout the plant for working levels where heat and falling debris were considerations. Below the walkway, the empty floor of the boiler house extends across the bay; above, the structural roof and the catwalks of the upper levels carry the upper part of the room. The walkway runs the length of the bay, with cross-walks connecting to similar walkways on the opposite side. The grating decking is darkened from years of working-shift foot traffic.

Boiler-house walkways at Wangi provided access to the firing levels, the fuel-feed equipment, the safety-valve risers, and the upper boiler shells across the operating life of the plant. Operators on shift walked these levels several times per shift to check gauges, adjust feeders, and respond to alarms. The walkways were part of the structural fit-out at the 1958 build and remained essentially unchanged through closure. After A Station retired on 7 March 1985 and B Station closed on 31 October 1986, the walkways stopped carrying working traffic. They are essentially intact today, the most legible part of the structural shell that remains.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A long corridor runs between massive concrete columns and the brick and concrete wall of the turbine hall. Steel I-beams span overhead, riveted and thick with corrosion. Paint peels from every surface in grey and pale green layers. The floor is dark with decades of grime and coal dust. Light enters through tall industrial windows on the left, falling across the walkway in muted columns. At the far end, a doorway opens to white sky.

Brett Patman

Wangi Power Station

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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07 MORE FROM WANGI POWER STATION

50 other prints in this series

All prints
Electrical Control Room at Wangi Power Station, cream ceramic tiles line both walls of a long corridor, their glaze still.
Electrical Control Room $100.00
Turbine Pedestal at Wangi Power Station, concrete columns rise three storeys to steel roof trusses spanning the full width.
Turbine Pedestal $100.00
Pedestal Looking Out Towards Switch Yard at Wangi Power Station, amidst the rusted remains of industry, a lone fern emerges.
Pedestal Looking Out Towards Switch Yard $100.00
B Station Between Turbine Hall And Boiler House at Wangi Power Station, concrete columns run in two rows down a central.
B Station Between Turbine Hall And Boiler House $100.00
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