Control Room basement The propeller shaft of MV

The propeller shaft of MV Cape Don

Dust coats every surface

making it one of the longest-serving active pumping stations in Australia

4052 Drivers Controls at Eveleigh

leaving the shell standing while all internal structures were removed

Control Room basement The propeller shaft of MVRows of analogue pressure gauges cover a yellow panel in the control room at West Ryde Pumping Station, each dial face labelled for a specific northern suburb reservoir: Killara, Chatswood, Hermitage. Strip chart recorders line the left column, needles resting mid scale. The station has supplied water to Sydney's North Shore continuously since Station No. 2 was commissioned in 1921. Part of the West Ryde Pumping Station series.