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

P13067215 viewsTrackwork dual gauge and sleepers laid for new track on the standard Gauge project, Herne Hill, view along the track.

P13074215 viewsDD class 600, all green suburban passenger set led by AKB class 60, Perth Station headed east, view from platform 1

P13131215 viewsWater tower with a cylindrical 10,000 gallon tank, Formby, TO line, ARHS members L-R David York, Carl King, Joe Moir and Ian Milne around the tank

P13135215 viewsStation building, platform crane, Hyden, LH line, rear view of the building.

P13158215 viewsSignal, yard, Katanning, GSR line, view shows the siding servicing the flour mill heading across and down the street.

P13175215 viewsXA class 1405 "WARIENGA" double heading with XA class 1407 "WIRNGIR", wheat bin, shed on raised platform with nameboard, Korbelka, NWM line, goods train

P13252215 viewsSignal box, Fremantle "Box A", signals, footbridge, Fremantle Yard, view looking west.

P13261215 viewsShed, yard overgrown with weeds, Day Dawn, NR line, view along the line.

P13319215 viewsBunning's shay locomotive "Dirty Mary", side view.

P13428215 viewsWater tower foundations, stockyard, siding, Stake Well, NR line, view along the line.

P13456215 viewsPlatform scales, Wagin, GSR line, "GSR" on the scales and dated 1895.

P13469215 viewsTrack formation to the smelters at Ravensthorpe, HR line, abandoned and degraded, view sleepers still surviving

P13669215 viewsNortham station yard, elevated overall view from the footbridge of the east end of the yard looking west

P10210215 views3 of 4 views of WVB class 30651 being tested for "Ride Index" and "springing" to determine the suitability of the conversion of the WVB class four wheel standard gauge vans to brakevans, side view of brake arrangements

P10215215 viewsRail Transport Museum site, work party of members pruning the pine trees, from left to right, Noel Zeplin, Alan Tilley, Otto Walkemeyer, Ian carne and another on a adder up the tree.

P13925215 views2 of 32 images of the railway and jetty precincts of Busselton, BB line, group of small weatherboard buildings with sign "KEEP OUT PRIVATE SIDING" on the end of one of them.