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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P04905219 viewsChief Mechanical Engineer's office, Midland Workshops, photo from "The Railway Gazette" Dec 4, 1925, page 750

P05046219 viewsCOD class container being unloaded by tipping

P05107219 viewsTrackwork, signal box Fremantle Box B, tracks leading to warehouses, Fremantle Yard, looking west

P05146219 viewsXA class 1404 "PARDOO" double heading on "The Westland" express departing Perth, both locos in the plain green livery.

P05171219 viewsWashaway, 242 miles, Narrogin-Merredin Railway, NWM line

P05189219 viewsMRWA F class 41, in WAGR ownership but with the "MR" motif on the nose, Claremont, suburban goods train

P05268219 viewsStation staff member wearing a pith helmet type hat, R class 1825 bogie open wagon and G class 2611 four wheel open wagon in background, large storage shed, location unknown, possibly on the CM line.

P05286219 views"The Westland" express passing under the pipe bridge near Swan View, ER line

P05471219 viewsE class loco, derailed and front buried in dirt

P05619219 viewsVisit by the Vic Div of the ARHS, PR class 522 "Avon", on country passenger train, Midland, same as P5609

P05664219 views4 of 8 photos of a collision at Canna, EM line involving X class 1029 "MULIARRA" and X class 1024 "KOGARA", derailed wagons

P05718219 viewsMRWA "kangaroo" points lever, Mingenew, MR line

P05740219 viewsMRWA brakevan and JA class type carriages damaged in the collision at Gunyidi, MR line, on 24/7/1917

P05923219 viewsV class 1203, double heading with a W class, Brunswick Junction, tour train, SWR line

P05925219 viewsXA class 1402 "TARGARI", Royal show Special, Leederville Bank

P06025219 viewsCollision at Canna, EM line, grader starting to clear wreckage

P06180219 viewsP class 458 (renumbered P class 513 on 27.8.1947), on turntable, East Perth Loco depot, side view

P06223219 viewsP class 467, Perth yard, side view from cab forwards

P06227219 viewsN class 95, East Perth, side and front view

P06341219 viewsADE class, about to enter tunnel, ER line, front and side view, towing an AG class Gilbert car as a trailer, view looking down on track. Same as P6209.

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