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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P2154671 views7 of 20 Construction Scenes of Third Beechina Deviation between Wooroloo and Chidlow ER line c1920s, workers excavating cutting by hand, horse drawn cart, Lehman's Cutting

P2154771 views8 of 20 Construction Scenes of Third Beechina Deviation between Wooroloo and Chidlow ER line c1920s, cutting excavation in progress, workers, Leighs Cutting

P2154871 views9 of 20 Construction Scenes of Third Beechina Deviation between Wooroloo and Chidlow ER line c1920s, horse drawn cart, mining wagons tipping dirt, workers, Allan's Bank

P2155671 views17 of 20 Construction Scenes of Third Beechina Deviation between Wooroloo and Chidlow ER line c1920s, loading mining wagons with earth, workers, Allans Cutting

P2158371 viewsRailway Road Service utility truck with tarpaulin covering tray, licence number 1362, driver, in front of John Wills shop, side and front view

P2165971 viewsWCA class railcars, heading "Prospector" sets crossing, station building, Burracoppin, EGR line, front view of one set, side and front view of the other set

P2171071 viewsColour light signal, track, rural setting, trackside view

P2175371 viewsCollie, sign in collie yard. "Engines or wagon not to pass this point". BN line

P2177771 viewsW class 958 rear end banking ARHS Dwellingup tour near Isandra. PN line.

P2198871 viewsD class 387, 4-6-4 tank locomotive, after being rerailed follllowing the Cape Horn derailment when hauling No. 42 Mixed Goods from Sawyers Valley, side and front view, M line.. Date of derailment 25/10/1927

P2203971 viewsTwo EMU suburban sets, on opposite sides of platform, one bound for Perth, the other for Showground, station building, passengers, stairs to subway, ER line, view from platform

P2216271 viewsStation building, platform, bracket signals, signal, bystander, tracks, Bellevue, ER line, view along the tracks toward the station and Darling range, c1900

P2046371 viewsB class 180, with coupling chopper each end, builders photo, side view

P2046571 viewsMRWA F class 40, on a Geraldton passenger train, Upper Swan, MR line, side and front view

T0607871 viewsDD Class 592 running around ARHS "Twilighter" tour train, suburban dogbox carriages, ADB/ADK Class railcar on ARHS tour train in Woodman Point Munitions Magazines siding, Coogee

T0663871 viewsALT Class 5 track recorder car, green livery, ex-ASA Class 445 Sentinel steam railcar, semaphore bracket signal, Perth Yard, ER line

T0664071 viewsXA Class 1408 "Wolmeri", at the head of last "The Kalgoorlie" service, various messages chalked on the nose and coupler of locomotive, "DOWN ON THE KANGAS", "THE BOULDER BOY", "MINES ROVER'S PREMIERS 1926", "THE LAST TO KALGOORLIE-BOULDER", "THIS TRAIN WILL OUT DISTANCE & OUT LAST THE PROSPECTOR", "KALGOORLIE HERE WE COME", "THE LAST KALGOORLIE", locomotive is dual braked, note air brake hoses on pilot, Platform 7, City Station, Perth, ER line

T0673071 viewsCollie loco depot, gantry crane, clamshell grab bucket, ash pit, roundhouse, turntable, stored steam locomotives, V Class 1220 departing Collie station with the ARHS "Farewell to Steam" tour train in background, photo taken from water tower, BN line