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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P09783249 viewsA class 1506, loaded bauxite, on curve from SW main leaving Mundijong Junction, cattle grid in distance. FM line.

P09989249 viewsPMR class 733, down goods, station building, platform, nameboard platform scales, advertising "Aunt Mary's Baking Powder", Mundijong. SWR line.

P11619249 viewsPM class 713, R class wagon with timber load, Down goods, leaving Midland marshalling yard for Avon Yard. ER line.

P11632249 viewsPMR class 731, tender first on down goods, passenger terminal in background, departing on goods main, Fremantle. ER line.

P11815249 viewsSate Saw Mills loco SSM 7, shunting across Vasse Highway near Pemberton mill. front and mainly side view of loco

P11987249 viewsY class 1105, top detail, Mundijong Junction accident. SWR line.

P12002249 views2 of 12 official portraits of the Chief Mechanical Engineers of the WAGR and Westrail, (ref: "A History of W.A.G.R... Steam Locomotives" by A. Gunzburg, page 150), Mr E. A. Evans, 1919-1929.

P12080249 viewsL class 274, orange Westrail livery, front and side view

P12086249 viewsLoco shed, out buildings, grounded tanks from JG tank wagons, Wagin loco depot, GSR line, tracks removed

P12168249 viewsDD class 599, E&V, overhead wiring, arriving East Perth from SW main. SWR line.

P12615249 viewsT class 173, decorated, well dressed men posing in front of the loco, front and side view, poor quality print

P12619249 viewsXBC class 21003 bauxite hopper, side view

P12632249 viewsW class 907, FD class 13761, loading platform, platform crane, Pinjarra, SWR line, side and end view of platform.

P12739249 viewsOverall view of the railway facilities at Midland taken from West Midland, view shows the ex MRWA workshops, the new Midland passenger Terminal, signals and workman's vans .

T00369249 views1 of 3 views of the construction of XU class wheat wagons, Boiler Shop South, Midland Workshops, wagon body on the main assembly jig, WAGR employees Bruce Skeggs (right) and Steve Butler (left) in the view.