NRS-16263 | Newcastle District Superintendent Minute Book

Full description

This series was created by the Newcastle District Superintendent of the NSW Government Railways and Tramways. The volume has been hand written and does not appear in any discernable arrangement.

This volume contains minutes, notes and copies of correspondence dealing with a variety of subjects including: coal; Bullock Island; regulations; cranes; policy; rates for loading and unloading coal; tonnage rates for vessels; testing of cranes; shipping and berthing matters; staffing; accounts and newspaper extracts.

Correspondents include the Commissioner for Customs, the Department of Public Wharfs, the Minister, and other members of the Government.

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 R192. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R192 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.