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

P00422408 views1 of 3 views of WGX class 33218 standard gauge bogie gondola, (later reclassified to WOAX class) Midland Workshops, as new, side and end view.

P00470408 viewsASA class 445 Sentinel steam railcar, East Perth, side and front view

P00569407 viewsACL class 387, side view

P00860407 viewsX class 1001 "YALAGONGA", Gladstone Dock, Liverpool, UK, being loaded onto a ship for delivery to Western Australia

P00862407 viewsGoods yard, Perth, elevated general view looking west

P06404407 viewsADG/ADA class railcar set, Perth station, 4 car set

P08150407 viewsF class 42, platform crane, yard, Northcliffe, PP line, timber train

P09801407 viewsV class 1209, goods train, Grant St. ER line.

P12000407 viewsR class 1901, Mundijong, Mundijong Junction accident. SWR line.

P02249407 viewsG class 233 "Leschenault Lady", on the Busselton Jetty with the vintage train,

P00487406 viewsWF Class 30112 standard gauge flat wagon (later reclassified to WFDY), with "Refrigerated Container" No. 5616 and "Refrigerated Container" No. 5628 on board heading a line of WF Class wagons.

P06415406 viewsX class 1023 "KARIERA", Cottesloe, on Royal Show Special

P00273405 viewsD class 1562 double heading with another D class hauling a bauxite train, elevated view along the train.

P00379405 viewsFertilizer works, Rocky Bay Line, line of loaded wagons including an unrebuilt RA class bogie open wagon, elevated view of site looking west.

P00473405 viewsA class 1511 with "ER" headboard, Bunbury Station, SWR line, on the "Royal Train" which transported the Queen Mother to Bunbury. (ref: "The Westland", Jan 2004, page 14)

P00523405 viewsMillars G class type loco No 58, side and front view, ARHS tour train

P00574405 viewsX class 1001 "YALAGONGA", "Westland" headboard, publicity photo when introduced

P00672405 viewsStation yard, Bunbury, looking west, with passenger train in view, same as P5806

P05030405 viewsADL class 809 railcar, Transperth black and red livery, Westrail dignitaries grouped around front of railcar, possibly the launch of the name Transperth.