Series:
General Correspondence.
Series Number:
Access:
Open
Start Date:
01 Aug 1890
End Date:
31 Dec 1963
Creating Agency:
Transport Commission (TA90) | 01 Jan 1938 | 01 Nov 1981 |
Tasmanian Government Railways (TA245) | 01 Jul 1872 | 01 Jul 1939 |
Transport Commission, Railway Branch (TA1736) | 01 Jul 1939 | 01 Mar 1978 |
Transport Commission, Road Transport Branch (TA1741) | 01 Jan 1938 | 01 Nov 1981 |
Transport Commission, Road Transport Services Branch (TA1742) | 01 Jan 1949 | 01 Nov 1981 |
Related Series:
P2093 Correspondence Files, Resident Engineer Then Chief Civil Engineer's Office | 31 Oct 1873 | 01 Dec 1969 |
P2146 Personnel Files, Railway Branch, Annual Single Number Series. | 31 Dec 1939 | 31 Dec 1963 |
AE963 General Correspondence | 01 Jan 1908 | 31 Dec 1979 |
TC1 Staff Files. | 01 Jan 1939 | 31 Dec 2003 |
Controlling Series:
P2581 Register of Files, Correspondence Files, Annual Single Number Series | 01 Jan 1921 | 31 Dec 1956 |
P2582 Alphabetical Register of Incoming Correspondence | 01 Jan 1918 | 31 Dec 1944 |
P2679 Alphabetical Register Cards to Correspondence Files | 01 Jan 1937 | 31 Dec 1962 |
TC11 Index to File Titles relating to Staff Administration. | 01 Jan 1936 | 31 Dec 1967 |
TC12 Alphabetical Register to General Correspondence. | 01 Jan 1914 | 31 Dec 1963 |
TC15 Index to Credit Accounts. | 01 Jan 1916 | 31 Dec 1962 |
TC16 Index to Audit Inspection of Stations. | 01 Jan 1930 | 31 Dec 1956 |
Subsequent Series:
P1200 Correspondence Files, Annual Single Number Series | 01 Jan 1917 | 31 Dec 1962 |
P2181 Correspondence Files, Hobart Railway Station, Annual Single Number Series | 15 Nov 1946 | 31 Dec 1985 |
P2092 Head Office Correspondence Files | 01 Dec 1892 | 15 Nov 1997 |
P2114 Cottage Files, Civil Engineering Branch, Numerical Series with C Prefix | 01 Jan 1968 | 01 Mar 1982 |
How to Use:
Descriptions of the file content and exact date range of each file were retrospectively added by TAHO volunteers to the file numbers already in the item description field. The project ran from around Feb 2013 and was completed in August 2014 and resulted in 23037 file descriptions being added to the series.
Series notes:
Includes both staff employment files and administrative files and staff files outside the Public Service Acts. A small percentage of files relate to non-railway matters. While there is evidence of culling files from this series it is also possible that files will be found renumbered and in later series of correspondence or in the case of files relating to the Railway Cottages in Series P2114 Cottage files Engineering Branch. Content of the files covers such topics as staff files, employment conditions, union matters, policy, local station business, administrative matters, maintenance issues, operational issues, interaction with business, industry and other government departments, legal agreements, land acquisition, railway sidings, regional railway stations, water supply, staff appointments, Launceston Workshops, Hobart Roundhouse etc
These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives
System of Arrangement:
Chronological file number - first two letters of file number denotes the year of file creation
Items: