NRS-15354 | Register of Specifications and Contracts

This volume records the quantity of raw materials and component parts purchased to fulfil Mechanical Branch work projects flowing from railway contracts. The projects were mainly for the construction of railway rolling stock and the specifications are for supply of railway rolling stock or spare parts, the disposal of rolling stock and of the necessary equipment to carry out the contracts. For each work order the numbers of the corresponding contract, specification, and technical drawing have also been recorded.Custody HistoryFrom 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 R141. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R141 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.

本卷记录了为完成铁路合同项下机械分部工程而采购的原材料及零部件数量。本批工程主要涵盖铁路机车车辆（railway rolling stock）建造业务，相关规范涵盖铁路机车车辆或零部件供应、机车车辆处置及履行合同所需配套设备的相关内容。每份工作订单对应的合同编号、规范编号及技术图纸编号均已一并记录。

保管历史：1955年至2000年间，新南威尔士州铁路管理局（State Rail Authority of New South Wales）维护了一套内部档案馆，馆藏涵盖该局、其前身机构以及政府接管的私营铁路公司的档案记录，这批档案的时间跨度为1849年至2000年。当决定关闭“州铁路档案馆”时，馆藏中符合州档案要求的部分被移交至新南威尔士州档案管理局（State Records Authority of NSW）。该批档案系列被纳入州档案管理体系，并重新赋予编号。

本档案系列原隶属于州铁路档案馆馆藏，当时编号为R141系列。该系列在州铁路档案馆中曾以R141系列的身份供查阅，且此前可能已被州铁路档案馆的研究人员在笔记、出版物或未刊作品中以此编号进行引用。