NRS-15609 | "Connections" magazine

This magazine disseminates information to staff about the activities of Rail Services - the acquisition of railway rolling stock and the construction and maintenance of railway lines. Australia and its’ predecessor the Railway Services Authority. The magazine contains short articles on the operational activities of the organisations including overseas projects. The magazine also contains articles on staff achievements, and advertisements for staff development workshops. The magazine is usually issued monthly and is illustrated with photographs, with the first four issues containing colour photographs.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 R67 "In-house publications". It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R67 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works. State Rail series R67 was separated into 14 individual series.