NRS-22650 | City Railway Plans

These are detailed plans for the design and construction of the City Railway. They provide details of construction of the stations and lines, roadway crossings, tunnels, and associated buildings such as the Administrative Building in York Street and the Plaza Hotel at Wynyard. Some decorative detail is also included. Many were signed by J J C Bradfield as Engineer. They are held in rolls with approximately 10 plans in each. The rolls were numbered CR1 [City Rail] to CR220. 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 R121. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R121 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.