ECLIPSE TRAMWAY AREA FROM ABOVE
(A) Mine and coke ovens area
(B) Allignment to Mt Crosby Rd; no evidence remains
(C) Allignment along Church St; again no evidence remains
(D) Wharf area
Overlay: QGIS Vectors (Alister J Cameron)
Underlay: Qld Globe (Ausmap)
1946 AERIAL PHOTO OF ECLIPSE TRAMWAY AREA
Brisbane-Gympie Transmission Line 1946
1 Jan 1946
1:16,000
Height: 4,084
QImagery
(A) Mine & Ovens Area
ECLIPSE MINE 1893
Scanned at Ipswich City Council Library
Jan 2018
THE NEW TIVOLI MINE (FORMER ECLIPSE) 1903
Annual Report
of the Department of Mines
for 1903, opp, p, 122,)
THE ECLIPSE COLLIERY (OR NEW TIVOLI) PRE 1925
Photographer: Oldham, Granville W. G.
Picture Ipswich
Document ID: 15317
DESIGN OF ECLIPSE COKE OVENS
Survey made in 1981
of the relics of the coke ovens
Coal in Queensland
From Federation to the Twenties
1900 to 1925
R.L. Whitmore
University of Qld Press
1991 p227
REMAINS OF COKE OVENS IN EMBANKMENT 2019
Probably buldozed in conjunction with open cut operations
Photo: Alister J Cameron
ONE OF THE MANY BRICKS AND PARTIAL BRICKS SCATTERED OVER THE EMBANKMENT 2019
Photo: Alister J Cameron
OLD LOCO BOILER ON FLATS SOUTH-EAST OF EMBANKMENTS 2019
Photo: Alister J Cameron
CLOSEUP OF THE BOILER; PROBABLY USED AS A STATIONARY MACHINE FOR THE MINE 2019
Photo: Alister J Cameron
(B+C) Tramway Site
(A-B) SITE OF TRAMWAY SOUTH-EAST OF MINE AREA 2019
Topography has completely changed and is now covered with bush.
Allignment cannot be located here.
Photo: Alister J Cameron
(B) LOOKING NORTHWEST OVER TIVOLI SCHOOL PROPERTY ALONG APPROXIMATE ALLIGNMENT 2019
Landscaping has completely removed all evidence.
Photo: Alister J Cameron
(C) CHURCH STREET SOUTH-EAST OF MT CROSBY RD 2019
Bremer River is in the far distance.
Tramway allignment would have been approximately along the right hand side of street.
Photo: Alister J Cameron
(C) FURTHER SOUTH-EAST ALONG CHURCH STREET WHICH BY NOW HAS BECOME A FORMER MINE ROAD 2018.
Still no signs of tramway.
Photo: Alister J Cameron
(D) Wharf Area
COAL UNLOADERS AROUND END OF CHURCH STREET 1986
The right hand one is the closest to the end of the street.
Both post-date the tramway
Photo: Alister J Cameron
Picture Ipswich
Document ID: 8676
NORTHERN-MOST LOADER 1991
Picture Ipswich
Reference ID
qips-2011-10-01-0040p.jpg
ALL THAT IS LEFT OF THE NORTHERN MOST UNLOADER 2019
Photo: Alister J Cameron
