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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T084128 viewsXA Class 1403 "Wanbiri", Up suburban passenger service, 5-car set of hired Queensland Railways (QR) SXV and SX Class carriages, between City and Claisebrook, ER line

T084258 viewsADA Class 752 with ADG/ADG Class railcar set, Down suburban passenger service, departing Fremantle, Fremantle Box B signal cabin, semaphore signals, platform, station building, ER line

T084268 viewsADG Class 617 with ADA/ADG Class railcar set, Down suburban passenger service, departing Fremantle, Fremantle Box B signal cabin, ER line

T084288 viewsEx-NSWGR KBY Class 2513 parcels van, candy livery, without bogies, loaded on flatbed truck trailer at Forrestfield for transport to the Pilbara Railways Historical Society in Dampier

T084328 viewsAustralian National AL Class 18 "Malcolm Fraser", AL Class 24 "Peter Nixon", stabled, Forrestfield

T084388 viewsA Class 1511, Up "Australind" sevice, arriving at City Station, Platform 4, Perth, ER line, night photo

T084398 viewsA Class 1511, Up "Australind" sevice, just arrived at City Station, Platform 2, Perth, ER line, night photo

T084438 viewsXA Class 1405 "Warienga", delivery cemermony at the Rail Transport Museum, locomotive was hauled to the museum by DB Class 1593 then driven into the museum under its own power (the first locomotive to do so), Bassendean

T084488 viewsXA Class 1405 "Warienga", delivery cemermony at the Rail Transport Museum, locomotive was hauled to the museum by DB Class 1593 then driven into the museum under its own power (the first locomotive to do so), Bassendean

T084598 viewsXA Class 1403 "Wanbiri, Up suburban passenger service, 5-car set of hired Queensland Railways (QR) SXV and SX Class carriages, Platform 2, City Station, Perth, serahclight signals, ER line

T084648 viewsA Class 1511, Down "Australind" sevice, Bunbury Bridge, East Perth, timber trestle, SWR line

T084698 viewsXA Class 1403 "Wanbiri, Down suburban passenger service, 5-car set of hired Queensland Railways (QR) SXV and SX Class carriages, between Leighton and Victoria Street, XBC Class bauxite wagons stabled in Leighton Yard, ER line

T084748 viewsK Class 206 double heading with another K Class, Down combined "Trans-Australian" and "Indian Pacific" service, three NSWGR NLKY Class vans in consist, departing East Perth, approaching Mount Lawley, searchlight signal gantry, ER line

T084798 viewsXA Class 1402 "Targari", Down suburban passenger service, 5-car set of hired Queensland Railways (QR) SXV and SX Class carriages, between Grant Street and Swanbourne, ER line

T084858 viewsADB/ADK/ADB/ADK Class railcar set, Down suburban passenger service, Swan River Bridge, steel girder, concrete pylon, Fremantle, ER line

T084888 viewsADB Class 760 trailer with ADK Class railcar, Down suburban passenger service, between Rivervale and Victoria Park, stopping pattern sign says "ALL STATIONS TO CANNINGTON THEN STOPS KENWICK MADDINGTON GOSNELLS KELMSCOTT", searchlight signals, SWR line

T084908 viewsADC/ADL Class railcar set, Down suburban passenger service, between Rivervale and Victoria Park, stopping pattern sign says "ALL STATIONS TO CANNINGTON THEN STOPS KENWICK MADDINGTON GOSNELLS KELMSCOTT", searchlight signals, SWR line

T084918 viewsA Class 1511, Up suburban passenger service, departing Victoria Park, departing Victoria Park, platform, station shelter, footbridge, SWR line

T084928 viewsA Class 1512, Down suburban passenger service, 5-car set of hired Queensland Railways (QR) SXV and SX Class carriages, between Rivervale and Victoria Park, searchlight signals, SWR line