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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P19251133 viewsOld railway station buildings,Ladies Waiting Room and a Traffic Office,, Esperance, CE line,

P19252133 viewsThree diesel locos in orange livery with blue and white stripe, covered wagon (part), yellow vans, station building, platform, tracks, pedestrian overpass, Narrogin, GSR line, track level view

P19254133 viewsSignal box, sidings, carriages, crossing, point lever, rodding, Narrogin, GSR line, track level view

P19331133 viewsBridge, concrete and steel, Eradu, NR line, view from dry river bed

P19462133 viewsP class loco on Kalgoorlie to Perth express, John Forrest National Park, ER line, front and side view, c1931

P19484133 viewsVF class 23291 louvered bogie van in original condition, brown livery, Subiaco, end and side view, c.mid 1960s

P19607133 viewsBridgetown - wooden trestle bridge under over the Blackwood River under construction. Workers tents in background. PP line

P19831133 viewsUnidentified J class diesel in two tone blue and yellow stripe piloting GM class 12 diesel in Commonwealth Railways maroon and silver livery, double heading empty passenger train, passing through station, station shelter, platform, Mount Lawley, ER line, view from elevated position

P19868133 viewsCrowd of onlookers watching the Minister for Railways laying the first rails of the Meekatharra to Wiluna Railway, NR line

P19960133 viewsSection of track, caravan park, earthworks, earth moving equipment, Walliston, UDRR line

P21236133 viewsSubiaco station - construction of tunnel at western end. Shows an A series railcar with a red stripe above the windows. ER line

P21630133 viewsR class 1904, points, point lever, shed, trackside building, East Perth depot, ER line, front view from elevated position

P10177132 viewsBunnings loco No.4, "Nora" with crew, side view.

P11902132 viewsPM class 702, goods train. EGR line.

T00576132 viewsG class 233, "Leschenault Lady", on "Vintage Train".

T01435132 views"The Indian Pacific" headed by an L class in original livery, station building, station fittings and funiture, nameboards, Mount Lawley, ER line, heading out of Perth, elevated view from the footbridge.