NRS-19554 | Contract registers

The series consists of two registers recording contracts made for the supply of railway and tramway stores and equipment (e.g. brake fittings, coal and tar, steel plate).The entries in the volumes are handwritten, and record the authority number, name of the contractor, nature of the contract (i.e. description of goods supplied), advertisement date, acceptance date, bond signing date, date specified for completion, extensions of time, completion date, amount of contract, total amount paid, and any remarks. Entries are arranged in rough chronological order.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 R237 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.

本档案系列包含两本登记簿，用于记录铁路及有轨电车备品与设备（如制动配件、煤炭、焦油、钢板）的供应合同。
簿册内的所有条目均为手写形式，记录内容涵盖授权编号、承包商名称、合同性质（即供应货物的详细说明）、广告发布日期、验收日期、保证金签署日期、约定完工日期、工期延期情况、实际完工日期、合同金额、已支付总金额及备注信息。条目大致按时间顺序排列。

保管沿革
1955年至2000年期间，新南威尔士州铁路管理局（State Rail Authority of New South Wales）建立了内部档案馆，馆藏涵盖该局、其前身机构以及政府接管的私营铁路公司的档案记录，档案时间跨度为1849年至2000年。当决定关闭州铁路档案馆（State Rail Archives）时，馆藏中符合州档案要求的部分被移交至新南威尔士州档案管理局（State Records Authority of NSW）。此类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，曾以系列编号R237在该馆供查阅，亦可能曾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。