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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P14161143 viewsL class 241 (?), newly painted, Midland Workshops, side and front view.

P14170143 viewsU class 7 with crane removed, Midland Workshops, side view.

P14336143 viewsDD class 596 loco side view, Midland, ER line.

P14423143 viewsOffice building for the "WAGR Signal & Telecommunication Engineering" branch, Wellington Street, Perth, front view.

P14490143 views2 of 3 images of a derailment of a R class open bogie wagon in Busselton yard, BB line, view shows the inside of the wagon

P14578143 viewsS class 549 "Greenmount", Bayswater, ER line, Bayswater Oval grandstand in the background, goods train.

P14708143 views2 of 2, AB class 1536 diesel locomotive on mixed goods train, front and side view, York, GSR line.

P14710143 viewsInside Burrage & Warren's shed showing rail line and loading dock and bags of grain or chaff, York, GSR.

P14823143 views20 of 21 images of the railway precinct and station buildings at Subiaco, c1969, trackwork, double slip, view along the track

P14824143 views21 of 21 images of the railway precinct and station buildings at Subiaco, c1969, trackwork. Double slip, view from the west end looking east with the station in the background

P14844143 viewsElevated view of Doodlakine station yard, wheat bins, EGR line.

P14846143 viewsView of Kellerberrin station yard showing goods shed, station building, agricultural hall and police station, view east, c1900, EGR line.

P14962143 viewsXA class "YABAROO" double heading with XA class 1408 "WOLMERI" hauling a train of empty XF class alumina wagon heading for Boyup Brook to be used for grain transport, Mundijong, SWR line, view along the train

P17065143 views1 of 2, P class 516 steam locomotive on the scrap road, side and front view, Midland workshops.

P17078143 viewsG class 123 steam locomotive, side and front view, over engine pit, East Perth, ER line.

P17087143 viewsV class 1218 steam locomotive, front and side view at East Perth loco with coal stage to left. ER line

P17088143 viewsV class 1206, front view, at East Perth loco. Diesel fuel tanks and power pole to left. Unidentified bunker style loco to right. ER line

P17149143 viewsV class 1205 locomotive at East Perth. Note loco sheds to right and construction of standard gauge trackage at East Perth Terminal to left. ER line.