NRS-17421 | Index to State Rail Authority Archives Photographic Reference Print Collection

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This series is an index for NRS 17420 State Rail Authority Archives Photographic Reference Print Collection. This index is arranged alphabetically by subject categories. For each subject in the index there is a number or range of numbers which correspond to the photographs. There are separate lists in the index for accidents, private locomotives and a numerical list of steam locomotives, where individual photographs within these groups are identified. The index does not specify the number of prints held under any particular subject. This may vary from one to dozens of prints.

Custody History
From 1955 until 2000 the State Rail Authority of New South Wales maintained an ‘in house archives’ consisting of the archival records of the Authority, its predecessor agencies and the private railway companies taken over by the government. The date ranges of the records were from 1849 until 2000. When the decision was made to close the ‘State Rail Archives’ the parts of the collection that were required as State archives were transferred to the State Records Authority of NSW. Those record series were incorporated into the State Records series system of archives control and were re-numbered.