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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P1045489 viewsProspector railcar set travelling in the Avon Valley towards Avon Yard and about to pass through No. 1 cutting. Front and side view of leading railcar.

P1045789 viewsProspector railcar set travelling into the Windmill Hill cutting in the Avon Valley. Front and overhead view of leading railcar.

P1056589 viewsRCA class 23923 open wagon, in yellow livery, being loaded with talc at Three Springs.

P1057389 viewsSide view of steam locomotive 'Kimberley' possibly at Carnarvon.

P1057589 viewsCyclone wire fencing, in coils, loaded into open wagons at Kewdale.

P1058589 views2 of 2. Guests being shown the Exhibition Train at Kalgoorlie Railway Station. See P10584.

P1597289 viewsRake of covered goods wagons, two semaphore signals, side and end view

P1599189 viewsWSC class 30630, standard gauge breakdown train's Crew Living Van, as new, end and side view, similar to P03793

P1062889 viewsGoddards Creek Bridge completed by WAGR workers to compensate for a washaway on the Trans Australia Railway west of Zanthus.

P1068689 viewsRCW class 2404? bogie bulk wheat with a tarpaulin covering applied.

P1078589 viewsUnveiling of plaque marking the commencement of construction of the standard gauge line through the Avon Valley, cairn, dignitaries, dais (part), Avon Valley line, c1962

P1616289 viewsCommonwealth Railways (CR), weatherboard cottage under construction, two builders, one of twenty houses built at Rawlinna, TAR line

P1627889 views3 of 5. A partial below bridge view showing the open nature of under rail portion. The steel section of the girders are visible.

P1628889 viewsObservers looking at Windmill Hill cutting in the Avon Valley. This was the largest rail cutting in the Avon Valley.

P1634789 viewsC class 1702, in green with red and yellow stripe, on goods train, front and side view, Leighton Yard

T0466989 viewsK class standard gauge diesel locomotive coupled to a WF class flat top wagon. The employee's wet weather equipment is on the front running boards of the loco.

T0467589 viewsK class standard gauge diesel locomotive coupled to a WF class flat top wagon. The employee's wet weather equipment is on the front running boards of the loco. T4669.