NRS-15935 | Track Upgrading Newsletters/Timetables

Full description

This series of loose newsletters and folders was produced by the Corporate Relations Branch of the Public Transport Commission of NSW. There is a separate chronological date arrangement for both the Blue Mountains and the Central Coast lines where works were in progress.

Details of the programme of works and the currents state of works on the sections of lines are provided. Newsletters also mention communication on trains, projects such as platform resurfacing programs, the Zig Zag Tunnel project and special functions such as the one held on 13 November 1978 commemorating the completion of the track replacement in the Zig Zag Tunnel complex and the first air-conditioned double decker train to Lithgow.

Also included are train timetables for sections of the lines during works, reports on the status of the works and future works and interruptions to services.

The series also includes historical notes with photographs, information and maps produced by the Australian Railway Historical Society regarding the Zig Zag Railway.

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 R200. It may have been reviewed in the State Rail Archives as series R200 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.