NRS-17431 | Cash books [Commissioners for Railways]

This series consists of two volumes. Volume one is divided into sections, with the category of expenditure detailed at the top of each page. The first thirty nine pages of this volume contain the cash accounts of the Sydney Railway Company, and the remainder of the volume documents the accounts of the Commissioner for Railways. The following information is recorded for each category: date, particulars of expenditure, amount, and totals. Volume two records debit and credit details for the following categories: bank, date, particulars, folio of journal, particulars of amounts, revenue, capital, and totals. These volumes record both cash and contra expenditure.This series was originally part of State Rail Archives Series R448. R448 included a number of record series and these have been separated as follows: NRS 17427 Journal Ledgers- Cash Accounts 1858-1873 NRS 17428 Journal Ledgers- Wages, Expense Reimbursements and Allowances 1879-1882 NRS 17429 Journal Ledger- Capital Accounts 1858-1861 NRS 17430 Cash books [Sydney Railway Company] 1848-1855 NRS 17432 Australian Joint Stock Bank Ledger 1853-1857 NRS 17433 Expenditure Ledger [Commissioner for Railways] 1858-1861Custody 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. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R448 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.

本档案系列共分为两卷。第一卷按章节划分，每一页顶部均标注具体支出类别。该卷前三十九页收录悉尼铁路公司（Sydney Railway Company）的现金账簿内容，剩余部分则记录了铁路专员署（Commissioner for Railways）的各类账目。每一类账目均记录以下四项信息：日期、支出详情、单笔金额及合计总额。
第二卷则记录以下类别的借贷明细：银行账户、日期、业务详情、日记账页码、金额明细、收入、资本及合计总额。本系列档案同时涵盖现金支出与对冲支出（contra expenditure）。

本系列最初隶属于新南威尔士州铁路档案系列R448。原R448系列包含多个记录子系列，现已拆分如下：
NRS 17427 现金日记账总账 1858-1873
NRS 17428 工资、费用报销及津贴日记账总账 1879-1882
NRS 17429 资本账户日记账总账 1858-1861
NRS 17430 [悉尼铁路公司]现金账簿 1848-1855
NRS 17432 澳大利亚合资银行总账 1853-1857
NRS 17433 [铁路专员署]支出总账 1858-1861

【保管历史】
1955年至2000年间，新南威尔士州铁路管理局（State Rail Authority of New South Wales）设立了内部档案馆（in-house archives），馆藏范围涵盖该局、其前身机构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。当官方决定关闭州铁路档案馆（State Rail Archives）时，馆藏中需作为州级档案留存的部分被移交至新南威尔士州档案管理局（State Records Authority of NSW）。这些记录系列被纳入州档案管理体系并重新赋予编号。
本系列原隶属于州铁路档案馆馆藏，曾以R448系列的形式在该馆中供查阅，亦可能曾被该馆的研究人员在笔记、正式出版物或未刊作品中以此编号进行引用。