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

P07220181 views"Dog box" carriages, Carriage Shed, Perth, internal view

P07491181 viewsThree ADG class railcars, Swan View, ER line, in original livery

P07602181 viewsA class 15, early photo before cab sides were replaced, side and end view

P07715181 views1 of 8 views of the burnt down running shed at Port Hedland, PM line on 9.10.1950, the night before the annual visit by the Chief Boiler inspector (Jack Farr), accompanied by a fitter (Ted Bosworth) and a boiler maker. G class 234 was badly damaged in the fire. G class 234 amid the ruins of the shed with H class 22 and G class32 behind the debris

P07773181 viewsTrolley bus No.10, Stirling Highway, Claremont, side and front view.

P07931181 viewsQ class, "Graveyard", Midland Workshops, front and side view

P08025181 viewsQX class 2300 trolley wagon with load with sign "LOAD 9 TONS", end and side view, this wagon was reclassified to QY class 2300 in 1967

P08123181 viewsCS class 432 "Marri", water column, Banksiadale, taking water

P08131181 viewsWater column, site of the former Banksiadale Mill loco shed

P08161181 viewsBunnings loco No.176, RCA class bogie open wagon, Donnelly River Mill, shunting.

P08508181 viewsKatanning, station building, platform, WAGR nameboard, GSR line.

P08514181 viewsBeverley, station building, platform, view south to level crossing, GSR line.

P08694181 viewsE. W. Vaughan, District Traffic Superintendent at Narrogin, standing outside the "District Railway Offices", Narrogin. Joined the WAGR on 7.10.1896 as a clerk at Beverley. Retired on the 11.3.1939 as the District Traffic Superintendent at Narrogin.

P08809181 viewsStation building ("Traffic Office"), Bowelling, BN line, side view of rear of building

P08815181 viewsStation building ("Traffic Office"), Darkan, BN line, entrance end and side view, looking east.

P08816181 viewsStation building ("Traffic Office"), Darkan, BN line, side and entrance end view,

P08820181 viewsStation building, Quairading, YB line, in use as the Information Centre, rear view.

P08908181 views24 of 29 views of the construction of the Wyalkatchem-Lake Brown-Southern Cross railway, WLB line, "Kalamazoo" gangers trolley, view down newly laid track at "Pit no.1".