NRS-15286 | Railway Institute course textbooks, lecture notes and examination papers

Full description

This series consists of the lecture notes used and textbooks set for Railway Institute study courses. Apart from these curriculum records there are mid year and final examination books, class tests assignments and examination analysis sheets detailing the range of marks achieved by the students.

The subjects represented in this series cover - the metal trades, coach painting and sign writing, electrical drawing and electrical work, fitting and machining, rail carriage building, correspondence, trigonometry, air brakes, railway accounts, ticket collection and examination, shunting, signalling, safety, station management, supervision and timekeeping.

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 R52. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R52 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.