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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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P2184266 viewsV class 1212, at the coaling tower, Midland, ER line, side and front view
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P2184766 viewsV class 1202, light engine, buildings, A post, Albany, GSR line, side and front view
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P2185466 viewsAA class 1515 and AA class 1517, both on goods trains, crossing at Hines Hill, EGR line, trackside view
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P2185566 viewsAA class 1515, on westbound goods train, part louvre van, Hines Hill, EGR line, end and side view
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P2191766 viewsF class loco, on goods train, bush setting, side and front view
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P2195166 viewsCeremonial wheelbarrow in an outdoor setting, Inscription on the rear of the photo states "this wheelbarrow was used in turning the first earth for the building of the first (government) railway in Western Australia, Geraldton to Northampton". This took place on the 22/10/1874, GA line
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P2196266 viewsRB class 11284, yellow livery, Bibra Lake, side view
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P2202366 viewsLower quadrant signal, track, cigarette advertising hoarding, bus, Karrakatta, ER line, ground level view
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P2203266 viewsGroup photo, WAGR Accounts & Audit Branch 1929. Reading from left to right. Front row: Messrs Devitt, Feeney, Tuke, O'Connor, unknown, Wormald, Diggins, Leahy, Hambleton, Reeves, Lowry, Doherty, Hogan, Flaherty, Collins, unknown, Warne, Jones and Pyne. Second row: Misses Atkinson, Davenport, Collins, unknown. Messrs Inglis, Carter (Senr), Hatton, Fowler, Hynes, McKenna, Price (Senr), Bromfield (Controller of Accounts and Audit), Shearer, Day, Hatfield, Hannah, Jeffery. Misses Dower, unknown, Simpson, Quinn and Paterson. Third row: Misses Millar, Eastmon, Williamson. Messrs unknown, Hogue, Sheridan, Simes, Taylor, Rowe, Atkinson, A. Smith, Spour, F. Lapsley, unkown, Maloney, Donohoe, Lowe, Nind, Ardagh, A. Palmer and Sundercombe. Fourth row: Messrs Randell, Maltman, S.J. Day, Howe, Wilkins, Rutherford, Keane, Tennant, Doherty, Bage, Owens, Grigg, Gibbons, Gloster, Campain, Hall, Snowball, J.R. Smith, Olliver, Puttick, Williams and Gorn. Fifth row: Messrs Fawcett, Phillips, E. Lapsley, Low, Rae, G.W. Birch, Varley, Brown, Power, Riley, Paterson and Wilkinson. Sixth row: Messrs Norton, J.C. Palmer, Webb, R.E. Wright, Ames, Langsford, Cornish, Magennis (jnr), Hamley, Donovan, Gidney, Dixon, Stokes, Cooke, Lankester, Blight anb Ridley. Back row: Messrs Frank, Venner, Anderson, Haydon, Miller, Downing, Peirce, Althorpe, C.V. Green, Huxtable, R.A. Birch, Ramsbottom, Cuffe, Scanlan, Atkins, Kelly, C.H. Atkinson and A.E. Green. Absent, on A/C, Annual leave, etc: Messrs H. Jones, H. Palmer, R. Parry, Miss Harper, Messrs LeCornu, Carter (jnr), Adam, Hammond, A.G. Wright, A.R. Yews, Louth, Johansen, Grieve, Lewis, Price (jnr), Huntley, Magennis (Snr), Pearcy, Balmer, and Salkilld.
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P2206166 viewsADG railcar at Chidlow - last Chidlow railcar ER line.
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P2214866 viewsW class 912 & S class 542 "Bakewell" hauling 104 goods leaving Darkan for Collie. BN line.
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P2218466 viewsDA class 1576, with DA and AB class locos, triple heading ballast train, station nameboard, station limits sign, gravel path across tracks, Wyalkatchem, GM line, front and side view
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P2044666 viewsCincinnati Hydrotel milling machine, copying a radius pattern (upper right), machining a drop forging die, Tool Room, Midland workshops, ER line, interior view
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P2044766 viewsApprentice carpenter, assembling window and frame, wood mill, Block 1, Midland workshops, ER line, interior view
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P2044866 viewsRailway Institute, Midland Workshops, first Master of Apprentices George Groves (right) and Dudley Blyth with two apprentices undergoing a trade test
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P2044966 viewsBirlec arc furnace, pouring molten steel into ladle, operator, foundry, Midland workshops,interior view
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P2045066 viewsOil can manufacture, turning machine, vice, bench, oil cans, duckboard floor, workers, copper shop, Midland workshops, ER line, interior view
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P2047466 viewsState Electricity Commission Comeng diesel mechanical loco, used at Bunbury power station, end and side view
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P2220366 viewsTrack laying machine, workers, rails, sleepers, on construction of the extension of the Goldsworthy Mining Railway to Shay Gap, Pilbara, track level view
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P2222066 viewsCanopy, on supports, buildings, motor vehicles, group of onlookers, Bunbury, SWR line, ground level view
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