Become a Member Today
Membership of the ARHS New South Wales Division is open to anyone 15 years of age or older and offers a range of benefits.
Benefits of your membership include:
- A free subscription to the Australian Railway History magazine
- A 10% discount on all ARHS bookshop purchases and events
- A discounted subscription to Railway Digest for your monthly rail news
- Priority access to events, walking tours, members meetings and talks
- A monthly ARHS members' newsletter
- The opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals
- Support for the preservation and promotion of railway heritage in the community
Purchase Archive Access
Available Access periods are:
- 1 months access
- 3 months access
- 12 months access
Currently, the Collection comprises of:
- Photographs, slides and digital images (the total number exceeds 1 million
- Engineering drawings of locomotives, rolling stock and infrastructure
- Books and reports, annual reports, Royal Commission reports
- Employee records;
- Railway staff newsletters and magazines;
- Industry and railfan magazines;
- Maps, signal diagrams, curve and gradient diagrams, street directories
- Timetables, Composition books, Operating Instructions, Rules and Regulations
- Circulars and memorandums
- Passenger fares and goods and coaching instruction;
- Personal observations and diaries of train movement
- Film and audio;
- plus much more.
Over 75% of the collection has been digitised and 20% is available on our online archives. Access to the online archive is included in ARHS Membership.