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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P01424248 views3 of 4 images of the buildings and other structures at the Ravensthorpe station precinct, HR line, barracks, side and end view, appears to be two goods sheds face to face

P01612248 viewsCulvert under construction, standard gauge construction, Avon Valley line

P02253248 viewsMillars loco G class 71 attached to the "Vintage Train, Yarloop, SWR line, G class 233 at the other end of the train

P02263248 viewsPR class 521, P class 508, Rail Transport Museum, newly arrived at the museum, fertilizer works in the background

P02198248 viewsMillars loco No.63 "Bunbury", Jarrahdale, in the bush, side and end view

P02926248 viewsPerth station, signal box ('C' cabin), passenger train in the Armadale dock, view from Wellington St looking north east, ER line, c1920s.

P03254248 viewsPR class 139 "Avon" steam locomotive, view of motion gear fitted with by-pass valve.

P03400248 viewsFS class 416 steam locomotive, driver on the footplate, side and front view, twin and roofed water towers, coaling plant, cheese knob, SWR line.

P03612248 viewsMillars Kia Ora steam locomotive and H class 18 steam locomotive, front and side view, stowed, Bunbury, SWR line.

P03840248 viewsPassenger alighting "The Prospector", Northam, ER line

P04078248 viewsPMR class 720, being prepared in workshop for South Australia, front and side view

P02017248 viewsSuburban passenger carriages, end and side view, Guildford station, elevated signal box, pedestrian overbridge, looking east, ER line.

P10511248 viewsJGE class 358 fuel tank wagon outside Block 1 at Midland Workshops prior to being released to traffic.

T05013248 viewsDerailment of runaway ballast train, wagons off track include WSH class 30521, WSH class 30510, flat bed wagon, near Doodlakine, EGR line

P20753248 viewsNR class 52 ( indigenous livery) & unidentified NR class head special Indian Pacific to commemorate 100 years of Commonwealth Railways into Kalgoorlie. EGR line.