Training Section Offices

The training section offices at Wangi Power Station occupy a corridor of smaller rooms in the administration block, with each office holding a desk, a bookshelf, and a wall pin-board for training schedules and procedural diagrams. The corridor is institutional in its detail: vinyl tile flooring, painted plasterboard walls, fluorescent strip lighting overhead. Each office door carries a small enamel plate with a name and role title; most plates are still in place. Inside the rooms, the bookshelves still hold technical reference volumes, training manuals, and ring-binders of procedure notes. Light comes through windows at the end of the corridor and through the office windows opening onto the plant.

The NSW State Heritage Register listing describes Wangi as "one of the most advanced training centres for power station operations in the southern hemisphere." Operators and engineers for the broader NSW Electricity Commission network came through Wangi for training across the working life of the plant. The training section offices in this photograph held the staff who ran that program. After A Station retired on 7 March 1985 and B Station closed on 31 October 1986, the training function wound down with the rest of the plant. The offices were emptied of personal effects but the reference materials and the furniture were largely left in place.