NRS-19277 | Electric Car (Elcar) painting record cards

Full description

These cards relate to maintenance painting for electric railway cars. Each card is sequentially numbered by Electric Car number, with dates when In, S[tarted] and F[inished] and detailing when minor (Co) and major (Fo) painting work was undertaken. The Remarks section explains preparation work, colour and type of paint used and where on the Car the painting job occurred. The cards are labelled 'Electric Car Progressive Record' but the information on them relates to maintenance painting.

This series relates to Electric Car numbers beginning 3000, 3100, 3200, 3300, 3400, 3500, 3700, 3800, 3900, 4000, 4300, 4400, 4500, 4600, 4700, 4800, 4900, 5000 and 6000. The cards are arranged numerically by Car number and within that sequence chronologically by date of action. Some cards indicate changes in the Electric Car number, with some filed by their original number and some by their new number. For example Electric Car numbers from 3165 to 3526 have been changed to 7165 to 7526 to denote 4 Motor type but are filed with the 3000s, whereas numbers beginning with 3900s were 3500s, but are filed at 3900s. Some car numbers may have been re-used.

Custody History
From 1995 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 records 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 R217A and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.