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These are negatives of photographs taken by the Photographic Section of the State Rail Authority. They mainly relate to various aspects of railway administration: Traffic; Way and Works; Mechanical; Signals (see NRS-22474-3 and NRS-22474-4); Electrical; Legal; Public Relations (see NRS-21573-3); and Archives. There are also negatives which relate to buses, trams, and ferries, as well as some covering special events and specific locations.
The negatives are arranged alphabetically by prefix which can denote a subject, a branch or a size of the negatives. Both safety negatives (acetates) and glass negatives are included in this collection.
The earlier negatives were housed in the State Rail Authority Archives Section where they received a high level of usage. Photographs from 1944 to 1989 were previously stored in 151 filing cabinets at the Photographic Section of the Authority's Technical Laboratories, Redfern which were closed down in early 1990.
Consignments include:
| Consignment | Prefix (Range) | Meaning |
| 1 | V (V1 - V4069) | Views |
| 2 | TR (TR1 - TR1150) | Transport (UTA [Urban Transit Authority]) |
| 3 | RAS (RAS1 - RAS663) | Royal Easter Show (Royal Agricultural Society) |
| 4 | T (T1 - T3480) | Traffic Branch |
| 5 | J (J1 - J36) | Job negatives |
| 6 | M (M8 - M5029) | Mechanical Branch |
| 7 | EW (EW1 - EW308) | Wangi Power Station |
| 8 | LE (LE1 - LE2999) | Legal Branch |
| 9 | ES (ES1 - ES2468) | Eastern Suburbs Railway |
| 10 | W (W1 - W17201) | Way and Works Branch |
| 11 | 35mm rolls | Photographic negatives (35mm rolls) |
| 12 | CME (numbered and unnumbered) | Chief Mechanical Engineer |
| 13 | E (E1 - E6470) | Electrical Branch |
| 14 | T (T3481 - T3584) | Traffic [R273] |
| 15 | ES (ES2001 - ES2362) | Eastern Suburbs Railway [R275] |
| 16 | E (E3667 - E5900) | Electrical Branch [R283] |
Created: 1944-01-01 to 1989-12-31
Data time period: 1944-01-01 to 1989-12-31
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