Emu Bay Railway - Board Minutes


This site provides a transcription of the early hand-written Board Minutes of the Emu Bay Railway. From July 1928 the minutes were typed. Unfortunately, Minute book No. 4 has gone missing somewhere.

Board Minutes by Year

The transcriptions are as accurate as I could make them, including abbreviations and punctuation. The page width has not been forced to be the same as the original, although underlining and horizontal lines are as close as I could get them. The location of page breaks are not shown, and any text in italics is not part of the original document. The hardest words to decipher are peoples names, and I hope I haven't made too many mistakes. I try to find a reference from another source if the name is difficult to read, but this isn't always possible.

It is clear that the minutes have been written by different people at times, so the abbreviations change depending on who wrote what. Mistakes have been left as is (e.g Guildford was spelled as Guilford early on) and some of the spelling is different to today (e.g. favor instead of favour). One error that was probably caused by one of the directors being spelt Reid was that Mount Read was spelt Reid most of the time.
No doubt some of the mistakes are mine. There are quite a few errors with dates, particularly in a new year when, quite often, the wrong year was signed by the chairman.

Volume From When to When






One  29th September, 1897 to 8th March, 1901 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901

Two  15th March, 1901 to 12th December, 1905 1901
 1902 1903 1904 1905

Three  19th December, 1905 to 28th February, 1911 1905
 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911
Four  (missing)






Five  9th January, 1917 to 27th March 1923 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923
Six  9th April, 1923 to 26th June, 1928 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928


 Board minute book Board Minute Book open Closeup
One of the original EBR Board minute books Same book open at a random page Closer view of same page

Panoramas in Tasmania (nothing to do with the Emu Bay Railway)
These panoramas are mostly shot with a full frame DSLR camera using a 16-35 mm lens set at 24 mm fitted with a 2-stop ND grad filter. Sometimes the jpg files used are straight from the camera, but the majority have been processed using RawTherapee.
The static panoramas are generated using Hugin, but the files are rather large (up to 40 MB) so the final jpg is reduced to a more manageable size before the moving panorama is generated using Pano2vr.

360 Degree panos


Partial Panos
Links

Information Sites
Australian Newspapers (Trove) - A digitising project run by the National Library of Australia (volunteer transcribers welcome).
National Archives of Australia
Tasmanian Archives
Wikipedia Entry for Emu Bay Railway

Railway & Historical Societies
Light Railway Research Society of Australia
Tasmanian Transport Museum
Don River Railway
Rail Tasmania
K1 - the first Garrett
Australian Mining History Association

Model & Miniature Trains
Boulder Creek Tramway - a 7 inch gauge tramway located at Howden, south of Hobart, Tasmania.
Argyle Loco Works - gauge 1 models
Remote Control Systems - Radio control for model trains