Storage Room

A storage room at White Bay Power Station is a concrete-floored space with steel shelving along three walls, each shelf carrying residual plant equipment left after the 1990s decontamination. On the shelves sit gauge glasses, valve bonnets, instrument fittings, and miscellaneous hardware in steel trays. Some items are still in their original cardboard packaging with handwritten part numbers on the labels. Electrical fittings and junction box covers occupy one section of shelving. Above the shelves, conduit runs and cable trays are fixed to the wall. The door to the storage room is a solid steel frame with a lever latch. The concrete floor has oil marks around the shelving bases.

White Bay Power Station maintained stores of spare parts for all major plant systems across its 66-year operational life from 1917 to Christmas Day 1983. The Babcock and Wilcox boilers, Parsons turbines, and switchgear each required scheduled maintenance and regular parts replacement. The station operated under the NSW Government Railways until January 1953 and then under the Electricity Commission of NSW until closure. Spare parts management was critical to maintaining plant availability, and storage rooms throughout the site held gauges, valves, fittings, and electrical components. After the shutdown and 1990s decontamination, many of these stores were left in place. The heritage listing in April 1999 documented the surviving plant material.