NRS-15299 | Railway and tramway by-laws

Full description

This series is made up of extracts from the New South Wales Government Gazette detailing delegated legislation (by-law regulations) passed under the authority of railway and tramway legislation over time. These by-laws provided for the daily operation of the New South Wales Railway system covering trains, trams (until 1932), cargo and freight haulage, goods yards, transport depots, plus traffic management, and passenger fares. The by-laws are individually numbered and arranged in numerical order within each volume.

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 R73. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R 73and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.