Control Room basement Natural light now falls through

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

its paint peeling in long strips under a flat grey sky

4052 Drivers Controls at Eveleigh

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

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.