NRS-22621 | Legal Branch Records relating to the Granville Disaster

These records comprise letters, correspondence, photographs, lists of legal matters, papers related to claims for personal damages and compensation, track inspection and derailment reports, locomotive logs, train registers, instructions to work gangs, graphs and the official reports. These records relate to the Granville rail accident of 18 January 1977. The records originated from the Legal Section of the State Rail Authority. 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 R527. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R527 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.

本数据集涵盖信函、往来文书、照片、法律事项清单、人身损害及赔偿索赔相关文件、轨道检查与脱轨事故报告、机车运行日志、列车登记簿、作业班组工作指令、图表及官方报告。上述档案均与1977年1月18日格兰维尔铁路事故相关，其来源为新南威尔士州铁路管理局（State Rail Authority）法律科。

保管历程：1955年至2000年间，新南威尔士州铁路管理局设有内部档案馆，馆藏包括该局、其前身机构以及政府接管的私营铁路公司的档案文件，档案时间跨度为1849年至2000年。在决定关闭“州铁路档案馆”后，符合州档案馆馆藏要求的部分档案被移交至新南威尔士州档案管理局（State Records Authority of NSW），该批档案系列被纳入州档案管理体系并重新编号。

本档案系列原属州铁路档案馆馆藏，原编号为R527系列；在州铁路档案馆馆藏中曾以R527系列标识，此前可能被该馆研究人员在笔记、出版物或未刊作品中以此编号引用。