NRS-15897 | Local Appendix to the Book of Rules and Regulations and to the Working Timetables

Full description

These appendices provided Station Masters, Guards, Drivers and other staff of State Government Railways with local supplements to the rules and regulations relating to working timetables.

Information includes: contact details for Sydney and Local senior officers; variations to the general rules when dealing with train failures or accidents; location of catch points; identification of the signalling types at various stations; facilities at the stations, sidings and platforms; gradients at various stations, sidings and platforms; engine whistling instructions at various places; requirements for telephoning loads to various locomotive depots; locations of signals, level crossings and crossover roads; regular reporting of the rolling stock and various specific local instructions; disorganisation of suburban traffic such as delays and accidents; propelling water trains; loading of coal and colliery sidings; refreshment room requirements; safety procedures such as fire alarm telephones, reporting and security.

Some appendices also contain a list of Inspectors and Officers employed in the following branches: Traffic Branch, Locomotive Branch, Electrical Branch, Signalling Branch and Permanent Way Branch.

The volumes include detailed subject indexes

The formats of the series are ring binders, books, manila folders and loose pages. There is a chronological arrangement.


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 R127. It may have been reviewed in the State Rail Archives as series R127 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.