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:

Most viewed

P03416305 viewsMRWA A class 27 steam locomotive on turntable, side view.

P03519305 viewsC class 8238 sheep wagon in new condition, side and end view.

P04245305 viewsAN class 413 Vice Regal car, AQL class 290 car, with Hotham Valley Railway's imported South African carriages, York, GSR line, Governor Gordon Reid travelled on this train in Heritage Week 1989

P17567305 viewsPassenger platform, cabin, pitched roof over cabin, Darlington, M line.

T05201305 viewsTransperth AEA class 210 and AEB class electric railcars, with the red stripe above the windows, Fremantle Station, ER line.

P00709304 viewsS class 547 "Lindsay", steel girder bridge, goods train, Boyanup, PP line

P00959304 viewsVB class 4330 bogie van, side and end view

P05482304 viewsPM class 710, Beela, BN line, goods train from Collie to Brunswick Junction

P05513304 viewsWorkshops shunter No.4, west end of the Midland Workshops, shunting

P06101304 viewsStation yard, water tower, Donnybrook, PP line, MSA class 426 Garratt loco shunting

P06409304 viewsDouble headed L classes on freight train, Midland, bound for Forrestfield

P06609304 viewsW class 957, Bunbury station, on train of side door carriages, passenger train for Perth

P06698304 viewsXN class hopper, Midland, end and side view

P07189304 viewsT class 173, Albany, decorated for the arrival of the new Governor of Western Australia, Sir Arthur Lawley, the decorator, Mr Frank Cook standing at the cab entrance, side and front view

P07275304 views3 of 6 views of the derailment of D class 387 on No. 42 Mixed at "Cape Horn", Boya, M line, 25 ton crane No.23 lifting loco back onto the rails. Date of derailment 25/10/1927

P09002304 viewsADB class 778 coupled to an ADK class railcar, Platform 6. Perth Station, overall view of the station taken from the Barrack Street Bridge looking west

P09878304 viewsBibra Lake, new yard, hard stand for interchange, rake of four wagons made up of three FD class van and a bogie open wagon, FA line. Two of the FD class vans seem newly painted

P09941304 viewsPMR class 729, shunting, part of goods shed, platform and overbridge visible in distance, TNT Siding end of Maylands. ER line.

P12149304 viewsX class 1026 "MANGALA", C class 1703, X class at diesel refuelling point, diesel tank and coal stage in background, East Perth loco shed. ER line.