NRS-15248 | Returns of revenue wagons and brake vans in existence

Full description

This series comprises returns detailing revenue wagons and brake vans in existence at the end of the financial year. The rolling stock recorded in these reports includes - open goods wagons, cattle vans, sheep vans, hopper wagons, louvred vans, refrigerated vans, powder vans, flat wagons, bolster wagons, covered vans, brake vans, and special purpose vans.

A code number is given for each vehicle along with the its type (number of wheels), description and carrying capacity. The tonnage carried is then represented by statistics for the total revenue earning stock, total capacity and departmental stock.

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 R26. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R26 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.