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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P06765437 viewsG class 118, water tower, Shaw River, PM line, possibly on the train celebrating the opening of the Port Hedland to Marble Bar Railway. Loco decorated for the occasion.

P03200437 viewsKA class 9257, KA class 8697 and KA class 9181 open wagons, as new, XA class hopper, end and side view of wagons

P03801437 viewsADX class 670, Nanking blue and light grey livery, stainless steel cowcatcher, coupled to another railcar, side and end view, Commissioner of Railways, C. G. C. Wayne shaking hands with driver at track side, ER line

P00416436 viewsGanger on "tricycle" inspecting the track, front on view

P00575436 viewsT class 1803, low loader, being loaded for shipment from Freighter Industries Ltd works at Osborne Park, to rail at Subiaco

T00822436 viewsWVX class Standard Gauge Vans, (later reclassified to WBAX class), newly painted, unlettered

P03702436 viewsE class loco, on goods train, ZB class brakevan van, Armadale station, SWR line

P00153435 viewsGuests gathered in the foyer of the new Midland Terminal for the opening ceremony

P00172435 viewsDisplay featuring an "AEC" horizontal diesel engine

P00254435 viewsCXB class 17632, stockyard, sheep wagons, sheep, Badjaling, YB line, loading the "Stacey Lamb Train"

P00542435 viewsX class 1001 "YALAGONGA", being loaded by a floating crane onto SS Gloucester at Gladstone Dock, Liverpool, UK

P00650435 viewsX class 1001 "YALAGONGA", "Westland" headboard, publicity photo when introduced

P00789435 viewsQCC class 23589 cement container wagon with four spherical "Cockburn Cement" containers, side view

P08023435 viewsQP class 3209, side and end view.

P08223435 viewsMRWA L class 862 bogie open wagon, became RBM class 40712 in 1964 and then RAM class 40712 in 1973, written off in 1978, end and side view

P00285434 viewsHolden car being driven up onto a standard gauge flat wagon, East Perth Terminal (Ref: "Westrail" newsletter, July 1977)

P00545434 viewsDerailment at Claremont on the 15th January 1910, view shows a hand crane, derailed and smashed wagons, looking west towards Claremont station.