Full description
This series consists of working copies of railway construction plans. The plans contain information about the landscape surrounding the railway including the size and shape of lots, the land owner's name, the curve and gradients of the land on which the track was going to be laid, changes to names of places or stations, disposition of railway buildings at stations, and layouts of towns around stations. Also included were geographical and man-made features such as rivers, crossings, bridges, and tunnels.
The copies of plans comprising this series were produced after the original construction plans had been proclaimed in Parliament. The proclaimed plans were copied onto metre-wide sheets and bound into book form for use in the field by engineers, surveyors, and land valuers. "Office Copy" is printed on the cover sheets of some, while "Engineer's Copy" appears on others.
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 R37. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R37 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.
Created: 1851-01-01 to 1930-12-31
Data time period: 1851-01-01 to 1928-12-31
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