NRS-17207 | Freeway files [Main Roads]

Full description

This series comprises correspondence files related to New South Wales Freeways. The Department of Main Roads files have an "F" prefix to their file number indicating they are Freeway related and the number of the Freeway.

Main Roads File Classification Scheme
Many series of files which were created by the Department of Main Roads are registered by means of a classified registration system.

These file numbers are constructed using a fixed number to indicate in which council area the road referred to is located. These council numbers are used in various series of files (e.g. Council correspondence files, Freeways correspondence files, State highways correspondence files). The council number is preceded by a highway number in the State highways correspondence files and a freeway number in the Freeways correspondence files. It is followed by a decimal point and then by a series of numbers which have a subject meaning.

The filing system is also unusual. The files are arranged first in numerical order by freeway, highway or council number, then by council number (if it is a freeway or highway file). The council number is followed by a decimal point. Within a council number the files are filed initially numerically by the first digit after the decimal point. Subsequent numbers following the first decimal place are treated as separate whole numbers, not as decimal places. e.g.

392.12 will precede
392.1107 which will precede
392.34

File numbers which include letters. such as 392RL27 are filed at the end of the sequence for that number. The number following the letters is filed in numerical order. e.g.

392RL will precede
392RL107< br />
RL = Railway Level Crossing
UL = Urban Local Programme

Source: A Practical Guide to Processing in the State Archives. Archives Office of New South Wales, 1979 (updated 1994).