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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P07298225 views13 of 19 photos of the construction of the railway dam at Wurarga. NR line, firing off with blasting powder

P07410225 viewsH class 17 as built, builders photo, side view, same as P2849

P07413225 viewsF class 356, oil headlight and bar cowcatcher, from a cracked glass neg print, side and front view

P07713225 viewsARS class 421 second class carriage, Midland Workshops, side and end view, in cream and green livery

P07810225 viewsStation scene at Unknown location, platform ended carriages, station buildings, goods on ground with passengers standing around.

P07854225 viewsHamersley Iron C636 class locos on Iron ore train crossing the Turner River

P07869225 viewsRefrigerated Container No.5606, Kewdale Freight Shed, side and end view

P07958225 viewsSouth Australian Railways X class loco, same as Millars loco "Grafter", side and front view, builder's photo.

P08047225 viewsKauri Timber Co. loco "The Blackwood" on log train, side and front view.

P08088225 viewsBunnings Mill, Donnelly River, general overall view

P08125225 views2 of 3 views of G class 118 hauling G class 67 from Bunbury to Midland, Yarloop, SWR line, taking water, front and side view

P08187225 viewsMillars abandoned and derelict rolling stock, Mornington

P08234225 viewsMill buildings, Hoffman, overall general view with railway tracks in foreground.

P08317225 viewsAWR loco T class 01, Albany, on woodchips train entering the stockpile at the wharf.

P08810225 viewsStation building ("Traffic Office"), Bowelling, BN line, side and end view

P08921225 views1 of 5 views of WQEF class 30743-M, standard gauge flat wagon with end bulkheads, side view. This wagon is a former WVX class then WBAX class van cut down to carry sodium cyanide tank containers.