Adelaide Timber Company
The Adelaide Timber Company was a family saw mill company that had timber mills and timber railway lines across a number of locations in Australia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
| Saw mill | |
| Headquarters | Australia |
The businesses were established in South Australia, Western Australia, and Victoria as part of the Shepherdson family business.[1]
Mills
- Mount Barker, South Australia (1850 - 1860 ?)
- Springhill, Victoria (Australia) (1862 - 1877 ?)
- Adelaide, South Australia (hills to east) (1878 - 1894 ?)
- Gugeri's Siding on Mundaring Weir railway line (1895 - 1900s ?)
- Greenbushes, Western Australia (1899 -1909)
- Wilga, Western Australia (1908-1984)[2]
- East Witchcliffe (1929)[3][4]
Notes
- Adelaide Timber Company (1899), Records, retrieved 23 December 2018
- Gunzburg, Adrian and Austin, Jeff (2008) Rails through the Bush: Timber and Firewood Tramways and Railway Contractors of Western Australia Perth, W.A. Rail Heritage WA. ISBN 978-0-9803922-2-7 page 132 - 134
- Acquired from the failed W.A. Jarrah Forests Ltd company, see also Woodland, E.W.(1968) Locomotives of the Adelaide Timber Co. Ltd. Bulletin Australian Railway Historical Society, No. 372, Oct. 1968, p.249-25351
- Austin, Jeff.(1980) Adelaide Timber Company tramways. Light Railways, No. 107, Jan. 1980, p. 23-24,
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