Visit EBA Railway Siding, South Australia

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This river port is in the Hundred of Eba. Cut out figures and dog on the old Eba railway station platform. The railway reached Morgan and Eba in 1878. No ruins or any other evidence remains of the settlement today except for the railway siding platform. This tiny settlement existed only because of the railway siding. The Hundred of Eba (which includes Morgan) was named after a friend of the Governor Sir Richard MacDonnell (1855-62) when it was declared in 1860. But settlers attempting to be farmers in this low rainfall marginal Mallee scrub land only arrived around 1878 when the Kapunda to Morgan railway line was completed. The railway siding was named after the Hundred. Land sales and small leaseholds started in 1879. In 1880 it was reported that around 3,000 acres was planted in wheat at Eba. But then drought set in and farmers turned to grazing a few sheep and selling cut Mallee. Although no town was surveyed or ever developed the siding area once had a postal service, a blacksmiths and a firewood depot and saw mill to cut the Mallee trees and stumps. It was run by Mr French. It had a Lutheran church and Lutheran school from 1888 to 1910 and a post office from 1901 to 1956. A state school existed in the district using various sites from 1894 to 1927 and in 1905 the school had 18 pupils enrolled.

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