Railway Corridor

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 21mm · f/8.0 · 1/400 · ISO 160
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Steel rails run through the station beneath the Ash Handling Tower, part of the internal railway that carried coal in and ash out. The site was selected partly for its direct rail access, which allowed coal delivery without road transport.

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In situ

Railway Corridor at White Bay Power Station, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Railway Corridor at White Bay Power Station, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Railway Corridor at White Bay Power Station, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Railway Corridor
Series: White Bay Power Station
Catalogue: WBP-059
Process: Giclée
Captured: 13 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/400 s
ISO: 160
Focal length: 21 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 297 × 210 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

The railway corridor at White Bay Power Station runs at a lower level of the plant, the floor a mix of concrete and original rail track bed. Steel rails are still set in the floor in sections, the track gauge visible in the spacing. Overhead clearance is high enough for small rolling stock. The walls are brick, the same construction as the main plant buildings. Cable trays and conduit runs are fixed to the walls above head height. The far end of the corridor connects to the coal handling area; the near end opens onto a loading bay. The brick shows water staining and efflorescence along the lower courses.

White Bay Power Station was sited at White Bay specifically for its rail and dock access. Coal arrived by ship at the wharf and was moved through the plant by rail, feeding the coal bunkers and conveyor systems that supplied the eight Babcock and Wilcox boilers. The station was built by the NSW Government Railways from 1912, and the internal rail network was part of the original design. The corridor carried loaded coal wagons and ash-disposal traffic throughout the station's operational life from 1917 to 1983. After the Christmas Eve 1983 shutdown the rail infrastructure was progressively abandoned in place. The heritage listing in April 1999 recognised the rail access as part of the site's historical significance.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Rail lines run flush with the concrete floor beneath a heavy steel gantry. Riveted cross-bracing and I-beams frame the corridor overhead, rust bleeding down every surface in streaks of deep orange and brown. To the left, cylindrical steel vessels sit on concrete plinths, their painted surfaces blistered and flaking. To the right, a brick and concrete wall meets corrugated sheeting, some panels replaced with glass that throws hard reflections. Sunlight falls through the open structure and heats the ground.

Brett Patman

The series

White Bay Power Station

124 photographs

White Bay Power Station is a former coal-fired power station on Wanngal Country at Rozelle, at the head of White Bay on Sydney Harbour, built to power Sydney's trams and suburban trains and in service from May 1917 until December 1983. The New South Wales Department of Railways designed it in its own drawing office and began building in June 1912. The turbine hall, boilerhouse, switch house and control room stand on a 38,000 square metre site behind two steel chimney stacks, the main steelwork stamped with British manufacturers' names.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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