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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P10025193 viewsBoiler Shop, Midland Workshops, looking east

P10040193 viewsRailway Hall, Narrogin Railway Institute, view of front of building.

P11019193 viewsSEC loco No.1 electric loco, side and front view

P11057193 viewsDD class 592, signal gantry with searchlight signals, Mount Lawley, on ARHS "City Circle" tour train, possibly on the inaugural run

P11152193 viewsStation shelter shed, stone (masonry) faced platform Tuckanarra, NR line, trackside view

P11219193 views3 of 5 views of the transportation of the gantry from the Midland Coal Dam to the rail depot in Bellevue

P11285193 viewsU class 655, shunting PM class 705 without tender, shunters float, Midland Workshops. ER line.

P11304193 viewsP class 503, V class 1206 heading a goods train, leading wagon is RA class 5644, point lever and point rodding in foreground, south end of Brookton. GSR line.

P11319193 viewsV class 1216 leaving with rear half of train, leading wagon is ex MRWA RBM class 40717 bogie open wagon, half the wagon covered with a tarpaulin, Cuballing bank. GSR line.

P11361193 viewsS class 544 "Hallowell", Narrogin bound goods, Collie station yard. BN line.

P11460193 viewsW class 931 with travelling water tank, S class, west of Hillman. BN line.

P11620193 viewsPM class 713, down goods, between Bellevue and Millendon Junction. Avon Valley line.

P11731193 viewsK class 208, K class, taking first iron ore train to AIS sidings. FM line.

P11770193 viewsEast Perth yard, overhead wiring, signals. SWR line.

P11823193 viewsW class, S class in yard, W class in loco shed, Bridgetown. PP line.

P11845193 viewsPR class 523, Narrogin loco shed. GSR line.

P12005193 views5 of 12 official portraits of the Chief Mechanical Engineers of the WAGR and Westrail, (ref: "A History of W.A.G.R... Steam Locomotives" by A. Gunzburg, page 150), Mr T. Marsland, 1949-1958.Commissioner of Railways 1958 - 1959.