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

P12874249 viewsV class 1213, L class 259, on adjacent tracks, Moondyne Siding, Avon Valley Line, front and side view

P12978249 viewsStation platforms, abandoned, Clackline, ER line, view along the right of way, road bridge in the background.

P12989249 viewsSignal box (Midland Pilot Cabin), Lloyd Street, Bellevue, end view.

P13496249 viewsShunting tractor,ST1, AL class 2, goods shed, Morawa, EM line, end and side views

P13680249 viewsStation platforms, abandoned, Spencers Brook, ER line, view along track, hotel in background.

P01082249 viewsTour patrons posing for a group photo in front of a Railway Road Service bus.

P01088249 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. Similar to P1084

P02163249 views1 of 3 images of the flooding at Kulyalling Bridge, GSR line, "looking upstream towards road bridge"

P14309249 views1 of 2, Station buildings, signal box, relay box, station furniture, island platform, end and side view, Welshpool, SWR line.

P01524249 viewsRailway house, front and side view, "Pre-cut type" of construction

P01636249 viewsO class 74, Midland Junction, front and side view, c1926

P01652249 viewsA class 31 with six wheel tender, Midland Junction, ER line, side and front view, c1926.

P01697249 viewsS class 476 "Bruce" steam locomotive with full length boiler-top cowelling, missing nameplate, side and front view, signal box, water tower with 13,000 gallon cast iron tank, relay boxes, Koojedda, ER line, Same as P03012

P02368249 viewsMillars loco "Samson No.2", Wellington Mills, the late S. Moss, ex manager of the Yarloop Workshops in the cab, front and side view.

P02197249 viewsWhittaker's loco M class 24 "Dandalup" at their mill, moving wagons of sawn timber

P02507249 views4 of 4 views of G Class 233 and G Class 123 back to back separated by a J Class water tank wagon on the train to commemorate the centenary of the opening of the Fremantle to Guildford railway, west end of Perth Yard, Perth Box B signal cabin

P02581249 viewsK class 207, near the Kalamunda Road overpass en route to Forrestfield, from Cobblers Pool with a special train of ballast loaded in hoppers and containers

P02600249 viewsFreudenstein 0-4-0 loco at the Rail Transport Museum in a blue livery with red lining and face painted on the smokebox door as "Freudy"