NRS-17423 | Sydney Railway Locomotive Department Register

This series consists of a single volume and records the following: number of engine, name of engineman, name of fireman, where from, where to, hour of departure, hour of arrival, trains (passenger/goods and from 29 March 1856 numbers of carriages, horse box, car truck, wagons- loaded or empty, and guards van), total miles travelled, pints of oil used, pounds (lbs) tallow, pounds (lbs) waste, hundred weight (cwt) fuel, and a remarks column.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. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R307 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.