NRS-15287 | Operating statistics

Full description

This series comprises monthly reports giving operating statistics for trains. The statistics cover many aspects of the operation of train services in the state. Included are revenue from goods and coaching operations, distances travelled and hours of service for trains, carriage statistics and average speed of trains, number of locomotives out of service, locomotive hours of regular shunting. Statistics are usually given for the different types of class or power of locomotive

Most reports are organised into three categories - Goods, Coaching, and Locomotives. Most reports contain notes on disputes and strikes for that particular period.

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 R53. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R53 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.