NRS-15896 | General Appendix to the Book of Rules and Regulations and to Working Timetables

Full description

This appendix covers Rules and Regulations applicable to Station Masters, Guards, Drivers and all other staff of State Government Railways. They provide detailed descriptions of the procedures for carrying out various duties on the railways. These are enhanced by photographs and diagrams.

They contain information on the general rules for the duties of various staff, operating rolling stock, dealing with malfunctioning equipment and accidents, signalling , operation of level crossings, the description and dimensions railway vehicles, lifting equipment, operation following electrification of railway lines, shunting, train notices, managing railway stations, communications including telegraph codes words, safety and the transportation of passengers, cattle and freight.

The appendices are in bound volumes. Amendments to the appendices are in loose booklet form. Some amendments (presumably received in the form of circulars) are pasted into the volumes close the relevant rules.

The volumes contain a table of contents in the front at and a detailed index at the rear.

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 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 R126. It may have been reviewed in the State Rail Archives as series R126 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.