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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T04261250 viewsUpper quadrant automatic signal on abandoned trackbed, ER line

T04306250 viewsWF class standard gauge flat wagon, (later reclassified to WFDY), newly painted in red oxide undercoat being carried on narrow gauge flat wagons, Midland Workshops forecourt

P01577250 viewsWMB class 34029, standard gauge car carrying wagon, (later reclassified to WMGY class then to WMGF class) side and end view, Kewdale, cars on board.

P01688250 viewsBunnings YX class 86, Yornup, driver Les Best and Donnelly Mill foreman Les Smith, on ARHS tour, side and rear view.

P02229250 viewsG class 233, station building and nameboard, Greenbushes, PP line, crowd watching the loco take on water on "Vintage Train".

P02415250 viewsHand crane, mounted on a 4 wheel flat wagon, side view, Derby tramway

P02428250 viewsThree Y class diesel locomotives, front and side view, J class 105 diesel locomotive, front view, multiple tracks, bulk wheat hoppers, Leighton yard, ER line.

P02577250 viewsYard, cheese knob, point indicator, Bowelling, BN line, view along the track looking east showing the junction

P02880250 viewsC class 1703 diesel locomotive, hauling a H.V.R. train, Z class 9 brakevan, front and side view, dual gauge tracks in the foreground, Bellevue, ER line.

P03027250 viewsEast Perth running sheds with front and side view of an F class steam locomotive in the centre and a P class steam locomotive on the right hand side, side and front view, c1940s.

P03189250 viewsADL/ADC diesel railcar set, front and side view, small passenger shelter and station building, footbridge, nameboard, metropolitan markets in the background, West Perth, ER line.

P03619250 viewsDerailment. The Wokalup Disaster. Copy of a postcard.

P03905250 views1 of 4, L class 266 diesel locomotive leading a triple headed freight train, running short hood first, side and end view, Westrail orange livery, West Kalgoorlie.

P15217250 viewsGSW class 318 covered wharf wheat wagon employed for grain transfer at Bunbury Jetty. All steel construction.

P10649250 viewsQX class 2300 trolley wagon, end and side view

T05118250 viewsPMR class 729 "Written Off", on WFL class 30060 and WFL class 30059 wagons, en route to Coolgardie, West Merredin, EGR line, front and side view

P00110249 views73 of 98 images showing views and aspects of the construction of the steel girder bridge with concrete pylons across the Swan River at North Fremantle.

P00116249 views79 of 98 images showing views and aspects of the construction of the steel girder bridge with concrete pylons across the Swan River at North Fremantle.