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

P1926289 viewsN class 1879, on goods train, steam loco, rail enthusiast, Mundijong, SWR line, side and front view

P1927389 viewsSignal box B, colour light signal, wharf sheds, Fremantle, ER line, view from trackside

P1933489 viewsPump house, roofing, car and sightseer, Coongoo, NR line

P1950389 viewsAbandoned station building, platform, canopy, rails, caravan, Cue, NR line

P2010489 viewsE class 299, with train load of water tanks, onlookers, Karalee, EGR line, front and side view

P1964489 viewsG class loco hauling a passenger train consisting of AP class carriages, station building, signal, sidings in the background, Swan View, ER line, train heading east.

P1976789 viewsTrackside building, wagons, piles of timber, mobile loader, tracks, point lever, forest setting, Palgarup, PP line, Easter

P1978289 viewsPlatform, station buildings, tracks, Welshpool, SWR line, track level view along the length of the platform

P1978889 viewsPlatform, shelters, level crossing, tracks, Kenwick, SWR line, track level view

P1981589 viewsSignal box, railcar shed, pedestrian footbridge, tracks, Claisebrook, ER line, side on view

P1985389 viewsHedges spelling out Daglish, lawn, gardens beside track, platform edge, Daglish, ER line, view from platform

P1986989 viewsHannan Street Station showing platform and station nameboard. EGR line.

P2018589 viewsLocomotive "Menzies" owned by contractor Smith and Timms works a construction train on the Kalgoorlie - Menzies Railway. KL line.

P2019689 viewsSingle truck tram No. 3, with a clerestory roof, crossing the old Causeway

P2108189 viewsPMR class 724, ex MRWA G class 50, goods shed, footbridge, shed under the footbridge, Subiao, ER line, head on view looking west

P2115189 views18th Delegate Railway Officers Union conference, Group Photograph: Back Row: F.A. Riley (Northam) K.T.E. Lund (A & N.S.M.'s) H. F. Holland (C.M.E.'S) A. Polglaze (Perth) Second Row: A.E. Walker (Collie) H.S. Ashdown (Merredin) S.L. LeLievre (Kalgoorlie), R.J. Pascoe (Geraldton), A.M. Allan (Fremantle) C.D. Prior (Bunbury) Front Row: J.A. Cooke (Administrative) E.C. Tyler (Assistant General Secretary) T. Kenafick(General Secretary) E.E. Huxtable (General President), V. Bond (General Treasurer) H. McLeod (Narrogin)

P2120089 viewsStation building, footbridge, Bayswater, wagons at the platform, hotel in the view

P2123489 viewsMidland Workshops ambulance built from a "VC" Valient station wagon, number plate UQD 703, WAGR insignia on the door, front and side view.