Control Room basement Natural light now falls through

Natural light now falls through high windows onto bare floor and column bases

leaving the shell standing while all internal structures were removed

Dust coats every surface

4052 Drivers Controls at Eveleigh

Arched window openings line the right wall

Control Room basement Natural light now falls throughRows 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.