NRS-15284 | Traffic circulars and weekly speed notices

Full description

This series comprises weekly circulars (traffic instruction notices) for Station Masters, Officers in Charge, Guards, Junction Operators, Train Drivers and other railway line personnel.

The circulars detail arrangements for freight charges, line maintenance, official visits and ceremonies, railway pass use, parcel delivery, special trains, staff duties, timetables, train speeds, train service cancellations, plus signals and warning signs. Special Speed Notices appear as separate circulars. There are also instructions covering the operation of railway sidings, goods and shunting yards. In certain cases the circular will be applicable to all railway lines in New South Wales, however, the majority relate to either a particular railway line (such as metropolitan, northern, southern) or installation (including siding, station, yard etc).

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 R51. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R51 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.