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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P06715250 viewsLoading Shed, Perth Goods, internal view

P06717250 viewsStandard Gauge project, marshalling yard, West Merredin, when new.

P06796250 viewsWF class wagons, (later reclassified to WFDY), under construction, Car Shop, Midland Workshops

P06843250 viewsPMR class 715 with P class boiler and dome, Midland Loco Depot, front and side view

P06964250 viewsMen's quarters building, Yalgoo? NR line, Mr F. T. Liston sitting in front of cabin

P07119250 viewsK class, station buildings, signal box, North Fremantle,

P07176250 views9 of 9 photos depicting scenes of the operations of the "M.C. Davies Karri and Jarrah Company Ltd" of Karridale. View looking out to sea at Hamelin Bay. Ship, "SS Nemisis" in distance departing after loading timber on her last trip.

P07186250 viewsF class 20, the first F class, side view, from a print in the WA Railways Institute Magazine

P07191-2250 viewsFremantle town with railway tracks in the foreground, overall view from an elevated position looking east, other half of photo P7191-1

P07205250 viewsD class, east side of Barrack Street Bridge, on goods train heading west.

P07286250 views1 of 19 photos of the construction of the railway dam at Wurarga. NR line, living quarters of Mr Ron Fitch

P07296250 views11 of 19 photos of the construction of the railway dam at Wurarga. NR line, excavation complete, shows narrow gauge track and hopper wagons

P07304250 views19 of 19 photos of the construction of the railway dam at Wurarga. NR line, shows full dam without roof .

P07409250 viewsU class 7 ex crane loco at the Midland Workshops, side and front view

P07683250 viewsG class loco, AD class carriage, approaching Kalamunda from the Zig Zag, UDRR line

P07912250 viewsSignalling diagram, Brookton, photo of the station diagram board in the Brookton Museum

P07946250 views4 of 6 views of the derailment of No. 30 Goods at Westfield, 29m, 3 ch on the FA line. Shows derailed GH class wagon, date of derailment 10/3/1956

P07966250 viewsG class 114, large crowd for the opening of the Jarrahwood-Nannup Railway, WN line, opened by the Colonial Treasurer, Frank Wilson and Sir John Forrest. A special train took guests to Nannup even though public trains had been operating since 26th March 1909.

P08064250 viewsBunnings Shay loco, Argyle Mill, cylinder side view, derelict

P08106250 views1 of 3 views of G class 233 struggling with a long rake of GH class coal wagons between the Bunbury Power House and the old Bunbury Station on the original rail connection, fireman is scooping up sand and placing it on the rails.

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