Turbine Hall Basement Looking From A To B Station

Provenance

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

The turbine hall basement at Wangi Power Station, looking from A Station toward B Station. The corridor ran beneath the six C.A. Parsons turbines. A Station housed three 50 MW sets; B Station three 60 MW sets, the largest single generating sets in Australia when they entered service.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Turbine Hall Basement Looking From A To B Station
Series: Wangi Power Station
Catalogue: WPS-046
Process: Giclée
Captured: 27 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1s 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 turbine hall basement at Wangi Power Station, photographed from the A Station end looking through to the B Station end, runs the full length of the building underneath the turbine hall floor. The basement is a long open volume bounded by the concrete floor of the upper level above and the concrete walls and floor at the basement level. Structural columns rise in regular rows. The bulkhead between A Station and B Station shows as a slight change in the column spacing and the floor pattern at the midpoint of the hall. Pipework runs along the underside of the upper floor in continuous parallel runs. The light is filtered through floor gratings and small ground-level windows.

A Station and B Station shared a continuous basement under one roof, with the major below-floor plant for each set of turbines installed directly underneath the matching pedestals on the floor above. From A Station, the run took in three sets of condenser and feedwater plant for the 50 megawatt units commissioned 1957 to 1958, then continued into the B Station bay for three more sets serving the 60 megawatt pulverised-coal units commissioned 1958 to 1960. The basement plant came out between 1995 and 1997. What remains is structural and small-gauge.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Reinforced concrete columns run in two rows down the turbine hall basement, forming a deep corridor that narrows toward a vanishing point. Steel rails are set into the floor. Overhead, heavy beam structures and gantry supports span the full width of the ceiling. Graffiti marks the lower walls. Light enters through clerestory openings and gaps in the roofline, catching the grey dust that coats every surface. The scale is industrial. The air down here would smell of damp concrete and rust.

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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