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

P13652230 viewsTrackwork, searchlight signal, East Guildford, view from the footbridge looking east, new standard gauge track on the right.

P01436230 views11 of 13 images of the construction of the duplicate steel girder bridge No.1 at 16 miles 25 chains on the ER through the John Forrest National Park, main girder being placed into position on pylons.

P01561230 viewsProspector railcars, Northam, official ceremony for the introduction to service, dignitaries on dais in front of a car

P01565230 viewsScrapper preparing the roadbed, standard gauge construction, Avon Valley line.

P01590230 viewsConfectionary dispensing machine installed in an ADU class carriage

P01593230 viewsRailway Road Service bus trailer, side view. Used on the Kalgoorlie/Esperance and the lower South West services out of Bunbury

P01641230 viewsE class 348, front and side view, c1926

P01642230 viewsG class 129, side and front view, c1926

P01665230 viewsES class 334, East Perth loco depot, ER line, side view, c1926.

P02267230 viewsC class 1 "Katie" in the green livery as delivered to the museum, Rail Transport Museum, side view

P02458230 viewsV class 1208, signal, goods train on the West Leederville Bank, heading west, view looking down on the train. Cecil Street signal box in the top left hand corner of the view

P02478230 viewsAI class 432 rail motor coach, side view, as new

P02652230 viewsV class 1213 steam locomotive, side and front view, East Perth, ER line.

P02659230 views"Stop" sign, Pickering Brook, UDRR line

P02661230 viewsFS class 450 steam locomotive derailed, side view, Moorhead, BN line. Date of derailment 2/5/1955, Same as P14698

P02746230 viewsD class 6 "Leonora" steam locomotive at the opening of the Leonora - Gwalia Tramway, side view.

P02855230 viewsCS class 440 "Jarrah" steam locomotive, side and front view, Banksiadale.

P02891230 viewsAI class 432 petrol coach, side view, PM line, c1935.

P02953230 viewsSSM G class 57 steam locomotive, hauling a rake of loaded open wagons and brakevan crossing a trestle bridge, crew on the footplate, vertical steam boiler at a log landing, horse team, log bridge, whim, in the bush at Pemberton.