Rail Corridor Exit

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 21mm · f/8.0 · 1.3s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The exit from the boilerhouse lower level, walls stained with soot and bricks darkened by coal combustion. The opening is wide enough for the internal railway that moved coal into the building and ash out. White Bay burned coal from 1917 until the final shutdown on Christmas Day 1983.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Rail Corridor Exit
Series: White Bay Power Station
Catalogue: WBP-058
Process: Giclée
Captured: 13 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1.3s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 21 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Rozelle, 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

Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

An exit point from the rail corridor at White Bay Power Station is a heavy steel door set into a brick wall. The door is framed with a steel lintel and a painted concrete sill. Signage above the door indicates the direction to the rail level. The corridor floor is concrete, stained and worn from decades of foot traffic and equipment movement. The brick walls carry conduit runs and junction boxes. Emergency lighting brackets are fixed to the wall at intervals. The paint on the walls is layered, the most recent coats over earlier oil-based applications that have lifted and cracked along the edges.

White Bay Power Station was built with direct rail and dock access for the delivery of coal and plant equipment. The rail corridor was part of that infrastructure, allowing materials to move from the coal wharf into the plant and through the site. The station began operation in 1917 and the rail access was integral to the fuel supply from the beginning. Coal arrived by ship at the White Bay wharf and was transferred by rail across the site to the coal bunkers and handling plant feeding the boilers. The plant ran until Christmas Day 1983, and the heritage listing in April 1999 preserves the rail access infrastructure as part of the site's significance.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Light enters through a high industrial opening on the left wall, falling across bare brick blackened by decades of coal soot. The ceiling is corrugated steel, rusted and sagging between exposed iron beams. A red brick partition with a green steel door sits against the far wall. Timber pallets lie across the concrete floor, partly covering deep rectangular pits where boiler equipment was once mounted. Grit and rubble coat every surface. The air looks thick with dust.

Brett Patman

The series

White Bay Power Station

2015–2018 · 124 photographs

Bricklayers laid 3.7 million bricks at White Bay across three and a quarter years of Phase 1 construction, on Wanngal Country at the western edge of Rozelle. The New South Wales Government Railways ran the build through its own Construction Department. By 3 July 1913, boilers and alternators were running before the buildings that housed them were complete.

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