NRS-16018 | Index to Register of specifications and contracts

This Index to the Register of specifications and contracts is arranged by contract number and this is an annual running number. The index is in two parts with the first covering the period from 1939 to 1951 and the second from 1983 to 1987. The earlier part includes the following details: contract number, specification number, particulars of what was to be manufactured and supplied, contractor’s name, and quantity. Some pages are typescript and some are hand written. There are also annotations, particularly when a contract was cancelled.The later section of the index is typescript and includes contract, file, and specification numbers; name of contractor, LOA date, description of what is being contracted, contract price, security amount, and job number. The last page is annotated to indicate if a contract was cancelled or did not proceed. The Register for this index is NRS 15354.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R141 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.