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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P05210387 viewsTroops posing for a group photo, footbridge, Chidlow station, ER line

P05814387 viewsV class 1220, Collie, being prepared for the ARHS "Farewell to Steam" tour.

P06205387 viewsL class, Spencers Brook yard, ER line,

P06781387 viewsGER class, grain elevator, wheat bin, Cunderdin, EGR line, Bulk superphosphate experiment (?), unloading wagon using a "Clarke Shovel"

P00274386 viewsD class 1562 double heading with another D class hauling a bauxite train

P00279386 viewsWF class standard gauge flat wagons, (later reclassified to WFDY),overhead gantry crane, wagons being loaded

P00507386 viewsKalgoorlie Station staff, group photo, names of the staff on the rear of the print.

P00536386 viewsGroup photo of WAGR officials in front of a F class loco, Geraldton for the Sunshine Festival, Commissioner of Railways, Mr. C. G. C. Wayne second from the right on the loco footplate.

P00814386 viewsXNG class 11, end and side view, same as P0362

P05437386 viewsXC class 21064 bauxite hopper, end and side view

P09022386 viewsWSW class 30631 standard gauge crew living van, Forrestfield Yard, end and side view.

P00288385 views"Outwards" freight shed, Kewdale Yard, elevated overall view inside the shed

P00382385 viewsXB class 1027 "MARANGAL", side and end view

P00894385 viewsXA class 1405 "WARIENGA", Avon Valley line, ARHS tour train with "Great Southern Railway" on the headboard

P06412385 viewsStation buildings, Cue, NR line, view from track side

P06807385 viewsW class 951 without tender, stowed at Midland Workshops, Tender from S class 549 "Greenmount "on flat wagon behind string of boiler on flat wagons behind. W class being cannibalised

P07910385 viewsWJL class Standard Gauge Tank wagon, Shell Fuel Oil-Distillate

P13405385 views49 of 67 views taken from an album of photos of the Midland Workshops c1905. Foundry,- Interior, Looking west.

P02293385 viewsXA class 1401 "PEDONG" in private ownership, with Hotham Valley Railway carriages, ready to run the Pinjarra-Armadale segment of a HVR Dwellingup tour.