Turbine Hall Storage Room at White Bay Power Station, light filters through the rusted steel door of White Bay Power Station.
Turbine Hall Storage Room at White Bay Power Station, light filters through the rusted steel door of White Bay Power Station.

Turbine Hall Storage Room

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
21mm · f/8.0 · 20s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Light through a rusted steel door onto brick walls marked by bolt holes where equipment was once mounted. The turbine hall storage rooms were cleared of their useful contents when the station was decommissioned in 1984 and decontaminated in the 1990s.

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Turbine Hall Storage Room at White Bay Power Station, light filters through the rusted steel door of White Bay Power Station.Turbine Hall Storage Room at White Bay Power Station, light filters through the rusted steel door of White Bay Power Station.Turbine Hall Storage Room at White Bay Power Station, light filters through the rusted steel door of White Bay Power Station.Turbine Hall Storage Room at White Bay Power Station, light filters through the rusted steel door of White Bay Power Station.Turbine Hall Storage Room at White Bay Power Station, light filters through the rusted steel door of White Bay Power Station.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Turbine Hall Storage Room
Series
White Bay Power Station
Catalogue
WBP-086
Process
Giclée
Captured
13 November 2015
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
20s 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

A storage room off the turbine hall at White Bay Power Station is a concrete-walled space accessed by a steel door from the main hall. The room holds maintenance equipment left after the station's closure: a portable welding set on a trolley, a set of tube expanders on a steel shelf, and a stack of inspection mirrors and bore-sight rods in a wooden rack. Above the shelf a board carries a handwritten list of condenser tube dimensions keyed to the unit numbers on the turbine hall floor. The floor is concrete with oil staining around the shelving bases. The door frame carries rubber draught sealing strip, partly detached along the top edge.

Storage rooms adjacent to the turbine hall at White Bay Power Station held the specialist tooling for turbine and condenser maintenance. Condenser tube rolling and expansion required a dedicated set of tooling matched to the tube outside diameter and wall thickness. White Bay's condensers used different tube specifications across the A, B, and C Station units, requiring a range of tube expansion sets and a clear record of which tools applied to which unit. The station ran from 1917 to Christmas Day 1983. Turbine maintenance was a scheduled activity, with each unit taken off line for inspection and overhaul on a rotating basis. After the shutdown the turbine hall storage rooms were left with residual tooling in place as part of the 1990s decontamination assessment.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Light filters through the rusted steel door of White Bay Power Station, illuminating cracked brickwork and flaking paint. The rusted bolt holes dotting the surface hint at machinery that once stood here, now long removed.

Brett Patman

White Bay Power Station

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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05 SIZE GUIDE

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07 MORE FROM WHITE BAY POWER STATION

123 other prints in this series

All prints
Control Room at White Bay Power Station, a curved control console wraps across the room in a wide arc.
Control Room $100.00
Turbine Hall at White Bay Power Station, reinforced concrete walls rise three storeys on each side, their surfaces stained.
Turbine Hall $100.00
Glass Curtain at White Bay Power Station, a towering mosaic of glass and steel, where light filters through dust-streaked.
Glass Curtain $100.00
Turbine and Condenser at White Bay Power Station, a steam turbine and its condenser sit on the operating floor of White Bay.
Turbine and Condenser $100.00
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