NRS-15569 | "The Staff" railway magazine

Full description

This monthly magazine replaced "The Railway and Tramway Magazine" and incorporated into it "The Commissioners’ Monthly Bulletin" and the "Safety First Pamphlet". The aim of the magazine was to promote efficiency, safety, economy, and contentment within the service. It provided readers with the latest information regarding their duties and these service notes covered official, personal, sporting, and social topics. Also included were articles from experts on all phases of railway and tramway operation.

The publication was used by the railway Administration to make announcements affecting all employees, and as the official record of Staff appointments. The magazine was also used to record awards to staff for suggestions and inventions. Staff members were able to contribute articles, drawings, photographs, and items of news. Special features such as photographic competitions, a "garden notes" section, and a "Where-to-spend-your-Holiday" were also included.

The Railway Commissioners decided to discontinue publication of The Staff after December 1930 of financial constraints.


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R67 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.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.