NRS-15251 | Annual reports

Full description

These reports detail the construction of railway amenities, bridges, tracks, station buildings, and sewerage systems for new lines. Maintenance programs for existing lines including work on embankments, firebreaks, railway lines, surfaces, lifting appliances, turntables, weighbridges, plus pest and weed control are also recorded. The reports also cover Branch expenditure, salaries, staff training, and production targets.

Besides financial and production statistics there is technical data from the Branch's soil mechanics and testing laboratory. Additionally there are reports concerning Ways and Work's plant sections, quarries, and steel inspection service.

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 R34. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R34 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.