NRS-16400 | Specifications for signals and communications equipment

Full description

This series is comprised of specifications issued to construct and/or implement the following: signalling; communications equipment; trains; traffic control; supervisory systems for the remote control of signalling; centralised traffic control and closed circuit television surveillance systems.

These specifications contain tender forms and contract documents and can include the following information: conditions and nature of contract; tenders submitted; responsibilities of contractors; nature of work; settlement of disputes; drawings; equipment; requirements of controls/circuits etc.; route list; points operation; and functions and capabilities of trains.

The series consists of booklets arranged numerically within each year.


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. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R225 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.