Re: Old Records & Access

["Leon Kernan" <lkernan@hotmail.com>]

I found the same 30 year thing when looking for Tasrail things at the
National Archives....
Some of the documents that should have been past that had been modified by
Tasrail in the 80's and 90's and therefore the 30 years started from the
date of modification!

So i should get some info in about 2020 :-)


Ian Larcher <metalastic@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Just wondering if anyone, like me has tried to access records formally
held
> in the SRA Archives, and now at the State Records Office at Kingswood.
>
> Went for a pleasant 250km round trip to find that most records are not
> available for viewing due to a 30 year closure period.
>
> Apparently, Carriage history cards, Steam locomotive history cards & the
> like are considered sensitive- even annual reports freely available
> elsewhere are covered by this order.
>
> God help any Society trying to access vital information (plans or the
like)
> in order to complete the restoration of an item. Was also wondering how
> future authors are going to access information- do they have to wait 30
> years from the ending date of the series? If so there is going to be a
> drought of technical information in books.
>
>