NRS-15070 | Annual reports [State Rail Authority of New South Wales]

Full description

The Reports were compiled annually for the minister responsible for railways and were presented to the New South Wales Parliament according to statutory requirements.

From 1854 until 1860 the reports are those of Internal Communication of New South Wales a substantial part of which is devoted to railways. Subsequently they were compiled by the State Rail Authority and its predecessors. The reports review the operations and development of the state railway system during the year. They highlight special projects and often contain statistics such as the quantity of rolling stock, the length of railway lines. The reports also contain annual financial statements.

Reports compiled prior to 1957 were bound in hard covered volumes with contents identified on the spine of each, after this date they are in booklet form.

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.

This series was formerly part of the State Rail Archives collection where it was identified as series R7, R8, R9, R10 and R11. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R7 to R11 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.