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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P16266123 viewsCrossover on the standard gauge, sleepers lying alongside track, houses, leaving Kalgoorlie, TAR line

P16295123 viewsKalgoorlie Station platform looking east to Maritana Street bridge. Passenger main line in foreground while freight main line is to left.

P16382123 viewsWCA class railcar set "Prospector", Toodyay, Avon Valley line, side and front view

T04629123 viewsDM class 587 steam locomotive with a suburban passenger service.

T04660123 viewsWBC class 862 standard gauge brakevan at the rear of a rake of WW class standard gauge wheat hoppers in the Avon Valley.

T04662123 viewsK class 208 standard gauge diesel locomotive at the head of The Indian Pacific prior to departure for Perth from Kalgoorlie

T04672123 viewsK class standard gauge and J class standard gauge diesel locomotives pictured at Midland.

T04753123 viewsMount Newman Mining M636 class 5474 on 96 wheel trailer being transported by road to Comeng WA Bassendean for rebuilding. Picture taken near Newman.

T04776123 viewsHamersley Iron (HI) GE36-7 class 5059 (Goninan-GE) being lifted onto wharf from vessel MV Iron Baron at Dampier.

P16461123 viewsCommonwealth Railways (CR) C class loco on passenger train, platform, canopy, water tower, Kalgoorlie, TAT line

P16476123 viewsXA class "UNGARINYIN", in green with red and yellow stripe, waterbag, near Maylands, ER line, side and end view

P16483123 viewsZJ class van 359, in green and cream livery, preserved at Coolgardie rail museum, platform, side view

P18616123 viewsW class 943, V class 1217, on ARHS tour train, signals, Brunswick Junction, SWR line

P18642123 viewsI of 6 views of J class 104 diesel locomotive shunting 'Overland' passenger stock at Spencer Street Melbourne. The locomotive was formerly a Westrail unit and here it is painted in Great Northern colour scheme of maroon.

P18693123 viewsDM class 585, at platform, platform light, station nameboard, men's toilet, Bellevue, ER line

P18722123 viewsNew station buildings, West Perth, suburban stopping place, at night, just after opening. Name of the station changed to City West 19/11/1987

P10950123 views3 of 7. N class 1880 together with XG class 20820, coal hopper, in 'the dirt' following derailment at Wagerup, SWR line. . Date of derailment 11/9/1981