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

P04850193 viewsE class 324, side and front view, early version with bar cowcatcher, copy photo

P04901193 viewsY class 1107, station Claremont, goods train, same as T2196

P04914193 viewsXB class 1004 "KADJERDEN", piggy backing train of WF class flat wagons, (later reclassified to WFDY), Midland

P04937193 viewsMill shunting 0-4-0 diesel loco, Nannup mill, side view

P04999193 viewsNo.22 goods, on the Blackwood River Bridge, DK line, river in flood.

P05156193 viewsProspector railcars WDA 003, WDC 021, WDB 013, Bellevue

P05336193 viewsBallast Regulator machine, Alumina Junction -Dwellingup section, restoring the line for HVR operations

P05338193 viewsN class 1877, double heading with an NA class, Collie, BN line, coal train

P05614193 viewsVisit by the Vic Div of the ARHS, station nameboard, Golden Gate, B line

P06104193 viewsE class, Katanning, GSR line, looking south, shunting

P06169193 viewsI class 26, 0-6-4 single Fairlie Patent loco, side view

P06397193 viewsA class 1502, Kalgoorlie, EGR line, with "The Kalgoorlie" headboard, side and front view

P06507193 viewsDD class 598, ADE class 449 "Governor Weld", Midland, stowed.

P06536193 viewsAbandoned track showing old sleepers of line leading towards Mundijong, view looking east

P06727193 viewsStation building, Geraldton, NR line, street side view

P07073193 viewsFacade of the Chief Mechanical Engineers office at the Midland Workshops. Photo was included in the presentation to W. E. Kay, leading hand, on his retirement after 42 years of service, in 1932

P07078193 viewsM class Garratt, view from tender side looking forward, end and side view.

P07297193 views12 of 19 photos of the construction of the railway dam at Wurarga. NR line, rock after firing with explosives, horse team in background.