Eba, South Australia
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 The platform at the now closed Eba railway station with novelty "passengers", 2018 | |||||||||||||
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| Coordinates: 34°04′S 139°35′E / 34.06°S 139.58°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 27 March 2003[1] | ||||||||||||
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| Elevation | 38 m (125 ft) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 27 (SAL 2021)[4] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 5320 | ||||||||||||
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Eba is a locality in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia, between the Mount Lofty Ranges and the River Murray. It is on the Thiele Highway and was on the former Morgan railway line before the South Australian Railways closed the line in 1969. Morgan is 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north-east of Eba, a river port where the Murray changes its westward course to a southward one.
History
The locality of Eba occupies the western half of the Hundred of Eba, which was declared in 1860 and named after a friend of the governor of the then colony of South Australia. The current boundaries were created in 2003 for the long-established name.[5] The village once had a post office, school,[6] blacksmith, grocery business and sawmill sending mallee-root firewood to Adelaide[7] and a cricket team, but now little remains of it.[8]
The railway siding was named for the hundred when the railway was built in 1878.[6] It comprised only a passing loop and a goods platform with a shed each for goods and passengers. A mile (1.6 kilometres) towards Morgan was Eba ballast siding, where stone for track ballast was crushed and dispatched along the line.[9]
References
- ↑ "Geographical Names Act 1991 Notice to Assign Names and Boundaries to Places (in the Mid Murray Council)" (PDF). the South Australian Government Gazette. South Australian Government. 27 March 2003. p. 1184. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ↑ "Electoral district of Chaffey". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ↑ "Electoral division of Barker" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Eba (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ↑ "Placename Details: Eba". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 11 August 2008. SA0032306. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- 1 2 "EBA". The Chronicle. Vol. 48, no. 2, 468. South Australia. 9 December 1905. p. 13. Retrieved 26 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "EBA". Kapunda Herald. Vol. XLIV, no. 3, 464. South Australia. 11 September 1908. p. 5. Retrieved 26 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "EBA". The Chronicle. Vol. 46, no. 2, 389. South Australia. 4 June 1904. p. 13. Retrieved 26 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ Barrington, Rodney (2000). "The North West Bend Railway, Adelaide to Morgan". Proceedings of the 2000 Convention. Modelling the Railways of South Australia. Adelaide. p. 1–219 ("1–" is volume no.).
External links
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