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

P01610280 viewsShed over new standard gauge tracks, view through the shed. Standard Gauge Progress

P03202280 viewsS class 541 "Bruce" steam locomotive, side and front view.

P03321280 viewsA class 1512, "cheese knob" point lever, Esperance, CE line, front view, on the jetty

P04012280 viewsAYL class 29 carriage, lounge car, interior view, single and double seater lounge chairs

P04223280 viewsWatheroo Railway Station, MR line, view from Hotham Valley steam special

P01816280 viewsStation building, Claremont, trackside view, platform 1 and 2, points rodding, passenger footbridge, Claremont, ER line.

P15217280 viewsGSW class 318 covered wharf wheat wagon employed for grain transfer at Bunbury Jetty. All steel construction.

T05228280 viewsMSA class 497, water tower, 25,000 gallon cast iron tank, water column, sleeper pile, trackside buildings, wagon (part only), Busselton loco depot, BB line, side and front view

P00635279 viewsH class 1, front and side view, when new

P00912279 viewsRailway Road Service AEC semi trailer, side and front view

P05011279 viewsThe last run of trolley buses in Perth, special tour by the WA Div of the ARHS, West Perth Subway

P06015279 viewsG class 114, Wilroy, EM line, last G class in the North, ex Geraldton, going South

P06362279 viewsASG class Garratt, crossing a "pigsty" bridge, goods train

P07204279 viewsPerth station with D class loco in background, photo taken from No.1 platform looking east

P07599279 viewsE class locos being assembled, Fremantle Railway Workshops

P08420279 viewsEsperance, station building, road bus shelter ("ladies waiting room"), rear view, restored VA class van, CE line.

P08699279 viewsStation buildings, Toodyay, CM line, street side view, period car in the foreground

P08943279 viewsWTAF class 640-D standard gauge tank wagon, end and side view

P11010279 viewsG class 48, I class 458 shunters float, roundhouse, water towers, Bunbury yard, shunting, part view of a five plank RA class open bogie wagon in the background.