NRS-3633 | Copies of plans and diagrams drawn up by the Public Transport Commission, relating to the Granville derailment on 18 January 1977

Full description

The plans and diagrams include: photograph showing aerial survey of Granville at a height of 2,200 feet (1973); reconstruction plan of lead no. 73 point. Scene of derailment of passenger train No.108 on 18.1.77 (c. March 1977); Plan of rail line, Central to Penrith, 21.700 km to 21.900 km (22.2.77); Diagrams - Logical Development of Mechanics of Derailment (29.3.77); Granville derailment - wheel and rail cross sections (18.3.77 and 23.3.77); Granville derailment of loco. 4620 (24.3.77); Plan of railway line in vicinity of Granville accident (n.d.); Clyde to Granville Quadruplication (20.12.1949, 16.4.1952); and, Granville derailment, 18.1.77, Loco. 4620 (21.2.77, 22.2.77, 24.2.77, 25.2.77, 2.3.77).

A full list is available.

These records were transferred as State archives by the Civil Law Litigation Branch of the Crown Solicitor's Office.

(SR Plan Nos. 2182-208). 27 plans.

Note:
This description, as amended, is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.