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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P06732176 viewsTrack gang pulling up the Kalgoorlie to Kanowna railway

P06771176 viewsJetty, Port Hedland, view from shore, PM line

P06773176 viewsRiver, Coongan River near Marble Bar, PM line

P06879176 viewsFS class 452 with shunters float, Bunbury Yard, front and side view, shunting

P06990176 viewsMarshalling yard, West Kalgoorlie, under construction

P07210176 viewsP class 449 (renumbered P class 509 on 20.12.1946), side view of front half of loco

P07369176 viewsMarshalling yard and Yardmaster's Office & control tower, West Merredin,

P07479176 viewsADE class 446, "Governor Stirling", unpainted, on delivery run from Fremantle to Midland Workshops, front and side view. Note the distant signal arm in the background painted red with a white vertical stripe

P07750176 views1 of 6 views of a derailment at Norseman, CE line on 31.1.1962. Ted Bosworth was the Officer In Charge of the Breakdown crew, Breakdown crew posing in front of crane No.23

P07829176 viewsFS class 418, on deviation east of Swan View, ER line, officials on buffer beam and running board with protection, platform ended carriage behind loco. Testing in progress

P07902176 viewsX class loco, Y class and other locos, Yardmasters Office and Control Tower, loco depot, Forrestfield Yard

P08033176 viewsTA class bogie cattle wagon, side and end view

P08057176 viewsGroup photo of Millars workers at the Yarloop workshops standing in front of a rail mounted log hauler.

P08104176 viewsPMR class 721, hauling fifteen assorted carriages, Harvey, SWR line, with school children from Collie to see the Queen Mother, Similar view to P8103

P08119176 viewsLocos around the turntable, Collie.

P08136176 views5 of 7 views of the collision at Yarloop, SWR line, by a train headed by W class 951 and a stationary goods train. shows wrecked end of Z class 65