NRS-16593 | Minutes of Resident Engineers' conferences

These are minutes of the Resident Engineers’ conferences where issues concerning the permanent way and works in various sections of the State were discussed. These issues included: staffing requirements and equipment, suggestions about improvements to the permanent way, equipment, materials, progress of capital works, allotments and expenditure, reports about permanent way, derailments, speed restrictions, ballast work, and stores.Resident Engineers in the various areas of the state were instructed in early 1933 to hold bi-monthly conferences to alternate with the bi-monthly conferences of the Way and Works Officers held in Sydney. Issues raised by the Resident Engineers could then be discussed at the Way and Works Officers’ conferences.The conferences were also an opportunity for Resident Engineers to raise issues that the Chief Civil Engineer could provide advice on. Resident Engineers’ conferences were held on 3 March 1933 at Bathurst, Cootamundra, Dubbo, Goulburn, Narrabri, Newcastle, Parkes, South Grafton, Temora, and Wagga Wagga. The Resident Engineers’ conference in Sydney was held on 10 March 1933. Subsequent Resident Engineers’ conferences were to be held on 28 April, 30 June, 25 August, and 27 October.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 R235. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R235 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.