NRS-15317 | Traffic Branch Committee reports

Full description

This is a 'compiled' series comprising of the remaining records of various committees formed within the Traffic Branch. The series appears to have been bound into volumes while in the custody of the State Rail Archives The records include minutes, correspondence, blueprints, diagrams, plans, and notes. There are also reports from special investigations conducted by Traffic Branch officers.

Volume One includes reports from the Sydney Terminal Committee Reports, Metropolitan Suburban Passenger Services Committee Notes, the Electrification Sub-Committee's first report plus a Special Investigation of South Coast Business.

Volume Two deals with estimated future coal production and its need for consequent rail transport requirements, the upgrading of Chullora Workshops, and passenger travel in the Sydney and Newcastle suburban areas.

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 R33. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R33 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.