NRS-16408 | Land and Building Cards

Full description

This series of cards contains details of railway property available for lease or sale. Most cards include a photograph of the property and a floor plan drawn on the back of the card. The cards record the following information: name; railway line; mileage; station yard; location to town facilities; street or access; construction (which records details on piers, ant-capping, bearers, floor joists, flooring, studs, rafters, exterior walls, interior walls, ceilings, roofing, down pipes and guttering, fly screens, fencing, and concrete work); repairs; accommodation; services; fittings; remarks; valuation (monetary value, squares, date, officer, papers- which includes reference numbers used in R208 Land and Property Valuation file); current owner; purchaser; price; date and remarks.

The arrangement of this series is alphabetically by location within line divisions.


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 R264 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.