NRS-17441 | Capital account ledgers [Tramways]

Full description

This series consists of volumes detailing tramway capital account expenditure. These volumes are divided into categories and are arranged chronologically within these categories. The categories are listed at the top of the page. Each category has a two page opening, and is divided into a debit and credit section. The debit and credit sections all record the following information: date, folio, particulars, and total. Each category records slightly different information, and can include details on the following: preliminary surveys, legal expenses, engineering expenses, compensation for land, cost of constructing bridges, engines and stations, salaries, electrical work, construction of line, signals and interlocking, wood paving, junction triangles, and water supply.

The volumes can also include summaries of expenditure, capital expenditure from revenue votes, expenditure by the Department of Public Works, and capital expenditure from loan votes.

Volume one has a list detailing the opening dates of tramway lines from 15 September 1879 to 25 April 1898 inside the front cover.

Volumes one and two have an index in the front that details subject and folio number. Volume three does not have an index.

This series was originally part of State Rail Archives Series R399. R399 included a number of record series and these have been separated as follows:
NRS 17439 Index to capital works correspondence [Railways] 1884-1888
NRS 17440 Capital works ledger [Tramways] 1928-1934
NRS 17442 Capital account ledgers [Railways] 1849-1980

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 R399 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.