NRS-22491 | Contract Plans and Sections

Full description

This series consists of contract plans showing land to be resumed for the construction of the permanent way and sections showing gradients. On some plans the position of the required land is indicated by a number corresponding to an entry in a table. The table usually lists: description of property, quantity of land required, name of owner, lessees, or occupants.

On other plans only the landowner's name and the position of the land is shown. When land was required within a town, a street plan was included. Land in towns was also included.

There are two main types of plan, one showing alignment of the railway line, and the other showing the same mileage as a contour section including culverts, bridges, etc.

Plans refer to main lines, some branch and proposed lines, and suburban lines. Included is the proposed Guyra-Dorrigo line.

The creating office for these records in the period 1888 to 1928 was the NSW Government Railways and Tramways Land Valuator's Office. The series start date is circa only. Some items' start and end dates are circa only. The series is arranged geographically according to main lines then branch lines, and within that station to station.

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 where it was identified as series R286. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R286 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.