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:

Most viewed

P07943235 views1 of 6 views of the derailment of No. 30 Goods at Westfield, 29m, 3 ch on the FA line. Shows derailed wagons, date of derailment 10/3/1956

P08156235 viewsCS class 432 "Marri", Banksiadale mill wood pile, side view.

P08355235 viewsEx Bunnings 0-4-0 diesel shunter from Manjimup, located at Pemberton, in Pemberton Tramway Co. ownership, side view

P08475235 viewsSpencers Brook, platform, abandoned, view from old down main, ER line.

P09434235 viewsBusselton, line to Margaret River near Jetty. BB line.

P09468235 viewsMSA class 466 2-6-0+0-6-2 Garratt loco at East Perth, first Garratt built in Southern Hemisphere, renumbered 491 in 1947. Goggs No. 75

P09616235 viewsW class, V class on 177 Goods, gangers shed, view of roof detail of a DC class van, departing Bunbury. SWR line.

P09946235 viewsDD class 594, Boans Santa Special, end of platforms, edge of signal box, entering Claremont. ER line

P11402235 viewsJ class 103, WW class wheat hoppers, Leighton yard. ER line.

P12301235 viewsB class 1601, wrecked FD class van, shunting neck behind Fremantle Dock, Perth station. ER line.

P12666235 viewsARHS members grouped around the just erected sign on the site of the Rail Transport Museum, From left to right, j. Adams, I. Carne, P. Nugent, G. Higham, T. Poole, O. Walkemeyer, m. Zeplin, P. Hopper and N. Zeplin. (ref: "Railways Institute Magazine", Volume 67, January 1970, page4)

T01800235 viewsF class 399, turntable, rear view

T03214235 viewsN class 200, 4-4-4T steam locomotive, N class 201, East Perth, shows end of suburban carriage still in Indian Red livery

T03641235 viewsMRWA loco D class 20, Belmont Branch, Bayswater, awaiting scrapping, side view

T03875235 viewsRA class 1910 in "International safety" orange livery, Claisebrook, goods train

P13186235 viewsWater tower, cylindrical corrugated iron tank, nameboard, abandoned track, Mooliaman, PN line, view along the right of way.

P13696235 views6 of 6 images of the mill town of Jarnadup, renamed Jardee in 1925, overall view of the hospital buildings.

P01084235 viewsLarge group on platform at Sydney Central Railway Station, "Indian Pacific" carriages at the platform, Westrail official with a megaphone at the front of the crowd.