NRS-16409 | Car Code and Numbers Books

This series consists of volumes detailing car codes and numbers for the following: · steam hauled coaching stock · rail motors and trailers · diesel type · petrol rail cars · diesel sets · car sets · code totals · Sydney-Brisbane car numbers 2323 to 2332 · Sydney-Melbourne car numbers 2333 to 2373 · air conditioned car numbers 2212 and over· vehicles in service · vans L and WVolumes one to three contain indexes and record the following types of information: number, code, conversion from/to, conversion date, first run, condemn date, type bogie, car set, tare, reservoir tag, ws tag, notes, set numbers, number of units in service, and destination. The format alters from volume four, with volumes four to eight divided by an alphabetical code sequence on tabs down the side of each page and recording the following information: code number, year and date.The arrangement differered during the life of this series. Volumes 1 to 5 are arranged chronologically according to car code, the later volumes are arranged numerically.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 R241 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.