Southern and Western Railway employees 1866-1876
State Library of Queensland

Explanatory Information
These open data file contain indexes of appointments and removals of the Queensland Southern and Western Railway employees in the period 1866 to 1876.
About this index
In the period October 1866 to June 1876, the appointments and removals of employees of the Traffic Branch of Queensland Southern and Western Railway were published in the 1876 (vol. 3) edition of the Queensland Legislative Assembly Votes & Proceedings. These indexes collect the names of those employees and present them in two alphabetical listings, one for appointments and one for removals. The appointments listing is presented over four pages devoted to appointments, with another two pages listing the removals.
On the original records the removals are all listed on page 679. The page numbers for the appointments are recorded on this index. The Queensland Legislative Assembly Votes and Proceedings can be located on microfilm at MFL 328.943 on Level 3 of the State Library of Queensland at South Bank, Brisbane.
About these data files
This index was prepared by volunteers transcribing records from the original documents into a database. The data has been extracted from the database and edited for clarity and consistency. Edits included:
•	corrected spelling errors
•	removed variations in spelling, capitalisation and hyphenation
•	Abbreviated forms of personal names have been expanded e.g Hy. is Henry
The data is provided in a comma separated values (CSV) file. The file can be opened as a text file, or in spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel. Please note that if you are using Excel, it is best to use the Text Import Wizard and import all columns as ‘text’ rather than ‘general’ format. This will prevent Excel making changes to numbers or dates in the file.
Fields in the dataset
Name
This text field shows the surname followed by the first name, initials or expanded form of the abbreviated name of the employee. For example, “Jenner, Hy. Wm. is Jenner, Henry William”, “Lymburner, Norman”, “Unsworth, W.R.”, “Ackerman, M. Mrs”

Date of Appointment / Date of Removal
Date – The date of appointment or date of removal are in the format of DD MMM YYYY. For example: “10 Oct 1889”
Page
Number – The page number of the original record, for example “11”.
‘Southern and Western Railway removals 1866-1876’ field
Remarks
Text – The reason for the removal or other comments. For example, “Dismissed”, “Transferred to E.T.O. Brisbane”, “Resigned”
Please send any questions or feedback about any of the datasets released publicly by State Library to opendata@slq.qld.gov.au.