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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P03476214 viewsCL class 15, GM class 40 diesel locomotives double heading on combined Indian Pacific and Trans Australian passenger train, Perth terminal.

P03538214 viewsA class 1505, iron ore train bound for Wundowie, Bakers Hill, ER line

P03604214 viewsU class 657 steam locomotive, side and front view, stowed at Midland, ER line.

P03609214 viewsS class 545 "Dale" steam locomotive on a goods train, side and front view, Swan View, ER line.

P03715214 viewsX class 1005 "MEANANGER", on the "Australind", about to depart City Station. Perth, Platform 7, ER line, station master guard and driver

P03841214 viewsGantry signals east end of Perth station

P03893214 views1 of 2, X class 1001 "YALAGONGA" on the Australind, side and front view, in Westrail orange livery, AYC class carriages, crossing a bridge en route to Bunbury, SWR line.

P04229214 views"The Westland" having just exited the Swan View tunnel, new Down deviation in the foreground, semaphore signal, ER line, same as P3064

P02004214 views2 of 14. Steam shovel, Ruston, side view, on the construction of the Denmark-Nornalup railway, D line.

P10636214 viewsWSH class 30512 standard gauge ballast hopper at the rear of a ballast rake on the standard gauge line south of Kalgoorlie to Esperance.

P00115213 views78 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.

P00117213 views80 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.