NRS-16267 | Shipping Lists

The purpose of this series was to record the details of locomotive spare parts received for use in the railway workshops. The individual lists vary in format. Most lists include the name of the vessel, the date of the voyage with a detailed list of the items included within each packaging case. Some lists contain the name of the supplier (often Peyer Peacock and Co. Ltd) and the port of departure. There is evidence that these lists were used for marking off the items when received as there are handwritten ticks, numbers, dates and other annotations on the lists. At least one list shows the workshops to which the items were dispersed and the date. There are several pages of rough workings. It unknown whether there are other items in this series which have not survived. 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 R204. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R204 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.