Rail Heritage WA Archive Photo Gallery

A picture tells a thousand words - and in historical research,
a picture may often show something for which no words have been written.

Rail Heritage WA has collected photographs and images over many years and these are available for research purposes thanks to the assistance of Lotterywest.
Please contact our archivist if you would like full size images or more information:

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P00220488 viewsW class 951 hauling the Reso train used by the Vic Division of the ARHS tour of WA

P00612484 viewsSignals, searchlight, Armadale, same as P0980 and similar to P1471

P00852484 viewsQUA class flat wagon, livestock containers, container crane, containers being loaded/unloaded onto flat wagon

P06200484 viewsGoods train crossing over the Mount Lawley Subway, cement mixer on road verge in foreground

P00603483 viewsN class 256, Karda-Mordo, Mundaring Weir line, MW line, on No.33 Down passenger.

P00804482 viewsWF class standard gauge flat wagons, (later reclassified to WFDY),Boiler Shop, Midland Workshops, under construction

P00162480 viewsADX class 666 coupled to an ADA class, both in Westrail corporate colours, Perth Station, front and side view

P00151479 viewsL class 260, Northam station, "The Indian Pacific", interstate passenger train, inaugural service, heading towards Perth, same as P6959

P00203479 viewsStaff weighing a parcel at the Parcel counter, City station

P02005479 views3 of 14. Steam loco Q class "Nornalup" re-named Q class 63, side and front view, hungry boards on tender, D line

P09381476 viewsBelmont, platform facing. ER line.

P00505475 viewsL class hauling an interstate freight train, consist includes "piggy back" trailers, Avon Valley Line, elevated view down along the train taken from the top of the "No. 2 Cutting"

P17205475 viewsPM class 705, on goods train No 108, station building, Nangeenan, EGR line

P09200474 viewsKW class 10812 "Bulk Grain" wagon, Narrogin, GSR line, side and end view.

P07868473 viewsStation nameboard, "Up" track, Whatley, Belmont Branch

P00402471 views3 of 4 images of the "Wreckmaster" bulldozer at the scene of derailment of a standard gauge iron ore train, west of Merredin, rear view of a derailed iron ore wagon being pushed by the "Wreckmaster"

P00474471 viewsASG class 29 Garratt locomotive, water tower with a 25,000 gallon cast iron tank, Collie Loco depot, side and end view, taking water, BN line