NRS-16092 | Statement of Affairs under the Freedom of Information Act

This Statement of Affairs was prepared in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, 1989 (Act No. 5, 1989_ section 14 (1). This gives a brief account, for the benefit of the general public, of the structure, functions, objectives and performance indicators of the State Rail Authority [I], of the records held in its custody and their accessibility to the public, and of how the public could participate in policy formulation.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. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R291 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.