Join ARHS
Becoming a Member
Membership of the ARHS New South Wales Division is open to anyone 15 years of age or older. Ordinary membership gives you full voting rights. To sign up, click on the membership level you are interested in, below.
All Members:
- A free subscription to the Australian Railway History magazine
- A 10% discount on all ARHS bookshop purchases and events
- Access to the Archives
- 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
By becoming a Member you agree to be bound by the Constitution of the ARHS New South Wales Division.
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.