NRS-19516 | Personal History Cards, Support Services

This series consists of personal history cards for employees in support services, which included a variety of administrative support areas including Administrative and Property, Legal, Employee Relations, Industrial Relations, Transport Investigation Branch, etc. These cards are in alphabetical order by employee surname and contain the following information: full name, date of birth, branch reference number, marital status, whether an ex-serviceman, medical reference number, employee number, address. These cards also record day, month and year date; position; station; rate of pay and remarks - such as appointment, passing of examinations, award variations and resignation.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 R354 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.