NRS-15913 | Volumes of store prices

These volumes detail the stores used by the Railways. Products are listed under their appropriate schedule such as ironmongery - tool, general ironmongery, and builder’s ironmongery. The contracted supplier is listed for each schedule as well as the rate of supply for a given financial year. Listed are thousands of products used for railway construction, maintenance, and operation, in addition to general items used in offices and railway stations. Cartage rates based on weight and distances are also given. Products and contractors are indexed at the front of some volumes, as are conditions of contract.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 R100. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R100 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.