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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P03891210 viewsADK class 685 diesel railcar set, side and front view.

P03955210 viewsWF class 30007 flat top wagon,(later reclassified to WFDY), loaded with a truck, side and end view.

P03993210 viewsXA class "UNGARINYIN" diesel locomotive, in green with red and yellow stripe livery, red drop plate, on goods train on dual gauge line, side and front view.

P04035210 viewsRA class 1910, Westrail orange with blue and white stripe, on mineral sands train, loading mineral sands, Eneabba, DE line, side and front view

P04042210 viewsKA class 212 and KA class 211, light blue with yellow and dark blue stripe, double heading nickel train

P04049210 viewsAV class dining car, interior view, set up for dining, pink and white colour scheme

P04060210 viewsO class 176, driver in cab, side view (part)

P04164210 views3 of 3, L class 260 and L class 261 on the inaugural "Indian Pacific" Sydney to Perth passenger train, Merredin, EGR line, front and side view.

P04224210 viewsWalkaway Railway Station, W line, view from Hotham Valley steam special

P04283210 viewsDA class 1574, DA class 1575, West Merredin, side and end view

P04326210 viewsSteam breakdown cranes Cravens No.25 and Cowans Sheldon No. 31 lowering a steel girder bridge into place replacing the truss bridge at Roelands, SWR line, side view

P04330210 views2 of 8, Station building, platform, lever frame, Elleker, GSR line.

P04331210 views3 of 8, Station building, island platform, Elleker, GSR line.

P04383210 views1 of 5, Trestles used for embankment construction, Denmark-Nornalup railway construction, c1928-29.

P14886210 viewsMSA class Garratt articulated steam locomotive under construction at Midland workshops.

P17174210 viewsF class 44 diesel locomotive in MRWA livery, front and side view on goods train, passing through Cottesloe, passenger shelter shed, signal box, platform furniture, loaded QMD class car carriers on siding, Cottesloe ER line.

P17565210 viewsPassenger platform, rails, Greenmount station, M line.

P17601210 viewsDemolition in progress of the former Bellevue station. Note the semaphore signals still in operation and signal box in distance. ER line.