NRS-15567 | Railway Commissioners’ Staff Bulletin

Full description

This monthly bulletin was produced for the information of railway staff. Included are operating statistics for the following: the amount of coal and oil consumed; the weight of freight transported; the number of passenger journeys; average wagon loads; and average train speeds. Later editions contain short articles imploring staff to help the railways become more efficient by following some basic principles. These included loyalty, goodwill, cooperation, courtesy, and to economise by cutting waste.

The "Railway Commissioners' Staff Bulletin" was last issued as a separate publication in December 1923. From January 1924 it was incorporated into a new magazine for Railway staff titled "The Staff".



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 R67 "In-house publications". It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R67 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.

State Rail series R67 was separated into 14 individual series.