NRS-22613 | 35mm Slides taken by Mr C A Cardew, Assistant Chief Mechanical Engineer

The records comprises of 3,188 35mm photographic slides of steam hauled passenger and freight trains. The slides depict Mr C A Cardew and others, and of a variety of different aspects of the working of the railways including shots taken from the cab. These slides were taken in the course of Mr Cardew's work as Assistant Chief Mechanical Engineer and were donated by his widow. A register of the slides is included detailing date taken, locomotive class, location, and remarks for each slide. 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 R516. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R516 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.