NRS-15293 | Monthly reports of the Mechanical, Workshops and Locomotive Operations Branches

Full description

This series is a compilation of the monthly progress reports providing a statistical breakdown of the equipment used and work done by the Mechanical, Workshops and Locomotive Operations Branches.

There are detailed figures covering the disposition of locomotive stock, passenger and goods rolling stock, the number of kilometres travelled by particular locomotive classes, the average load per locomotive kilometre, and the total tonnage of cargo transported. There are also figures for fuel consumption, locomotive failure, mechanical defects, and "vehicle hot boxes".

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 R20. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R20 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.