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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P03071252 viewsPR class 532 "Fortescue" steam locomotive, on a goods train, signals, sidings, Claremont, ER line.

P03108252 viewsEx MRWA F class 46, goods vans, Fremantle, ER line, shunting near port

P03299252 viewsT class 1804, NS class shunters float, Albany, GSR line, front and side view

P03451252 viewsSignal box, Tunnel Junction, just east of the Swan View tunnel, ER line, view from trackside, signalman A.E. Risley leaning out of window

P03640252 viewsW class 947, turntable, Albany, GSR line, front and side view, possibly the last time the turntable was used.

P03778252 viewsADL class 804 diesel railcar set, platform shelter, nameboard, ticket cancelling machine, platform lights. Carlisle station, SWR line.

P03894252 views2 of 2, X class 1001 "YALAGONGA" on the Australind, side and front view, in Westrail orange livery, AYC class carriages, en route to Bunbury, SWR line.

P03928252 viewsL class 269 standard gauge diesel locomotive, front and side view, in Westrail orange livery double heading another diesel locomotive in Westrail orange livery, on iron ore train, WO class iron ore wagons, on route to Kwinana, standard gauge line.

P03962252 viewsA Class 1503 diesel locomotive in green with red and yellow stripe livery hauling Up "The Westland" passenger train, side and front view, running short hood first, cutting, Avon Valley line.

P04210252 viewsPMR class 726, on goods train number 861, Claremont Yard, ER line

P02020252 viewsStation building, Guildford, view od steps up to the StreetSide entrance, period cars parked in front of the building, c1926

P02038252 viewsGSR loco "Torbay" on a turntable, side view, later became WAGR T class 169

P00746251 viewsV class 1217, Bunbury Power House line, coal train

P04792251 viewsSons of Gwalia loco "Fowler", front and side view, derailed.

P05010251 viewsThe last run of trolley buses in Perth, special tour by the WA Div of the ARHS

P05097251 viewsQS class bogie flat wagon, Esperance yard, CE line

P05184251 viewsFremantle Railway Bridge collapse which occurred on the afternoon of the 22nd of July, 1926, view along the bridge with the rails suspended over the gap due to the washaway, ER line, See also P0592

P05357251 viewsN class, suburban passenger, Bayswater subway, note accompanying photo stated "one of the first trains. From near garage. Houses across are still standing. I think was sent to my father 1st World War R. Trainer." note on back of photo reads "May you soon come back to see this station".