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

P00254428 viewsCXB class 17632, stockyard, sheep wagons, sheep, Badjaling, YB line, loading the "Stacey Lamb Train"

P00372428 viewsADK class 681 railcar set, Midland Terminal, front and side view, "Special Trains to Christmas Pageant 15th December" sign on the front

P00550428 viewsFootbridge, yard with goods wagons, Narrogin, GSR line, view from the footbridge.

P00565428 viewsPM class 713 having just emerged from the Swan View Tunnel, with an "up" goods train composed entirely of bogie vans

P00608428 viewsY class 1102, as new, front and side view

P00961428 viewsWA class 23452 bogie cool storage van, side and end view

P00964428 viewsD class 5151 van with advertisement for "BGE Refrigerators & all Electrical Appliances", side view

P05019428 viewsLNER loco "Flying Scotsman", East Perth Terminal, coupled to "Pendennis Castle".

P06765428 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.

P03702428 viewsE class loco, on goods train, ZB class brakevan van, Armadale station, SWR line

P04121428 viewsXA class 1405 "WARIENGA" and XA class 1403 "WANBIRI". Last Meekatharra train. Front view arriving at Yalgoo Railway Station.NR line

P00167427 viewsRoyal Show display showing members of the public viewing a display advertising "Indian-Pacific Holiday Tours" showing a mock up of a carriage featuring a bar, a piano being played.

P00416427 viewsGanger on "tricycle" inspecting the track, front on view

P00515427 viewsASG class 49, as new in photographic grey livery, side view

P00545427 viewsDerailment at Claremont on the 15th January 1910, view shows a hand crane, derailed and smashed wagons, looking west towards Claremont station.