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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P07487198 viewsWild flower railcar set, ADF class 490 "Boronia", possibly on test run

P07661198 viewsU class, the "Australind" passenger train, Roelands, publicity photo

P07748198 viewsX class 1001 "YALAGONGA", on low loader trailer being hauled by a "Pickfords prime mover being transported to the docks at Liverpool, UK for shipping to West Australia, front and side view. See also P07747 ,P20927, T01442

P07749198 viewsX class 1001 "YALAGONGA" on deck of ship in Liverpool docks, UK,

P07784198 viewsSSM loco J class 28, Wuraming Mill, hauling timber train

P07799198 viewsCeremonial wheelbarrow used by Governor Weld to turn the first sod on the Geraldton to Northampton Railway, GA line on 22nd October, 1874

P07822198 viewsPM class 702, deviation east of Swan View, ER line, goods train

P07886198 viewsBattery Room, Forrestfield Yard, external view.

P07977198 viewsMillars loco "Samson" hauling sawn timber from Jarrahdale. Possibly the opposite end of train in P4574.

P08083198 viewsV class 1215 crossing a PM class or PMR class on goods train, photographers present

P08228198 viewsPWD side tipping wagon, Bunbury, side and end view

P08311198 viewsDB class 1591 "Shire of Manjimup", Woodbridge, grain train, front and side view of loco

P08389198 viewsAYD class 540, "Australind" nameboard, hostess showing mother and child onto the train

P08570198 viewsGeraldton, station building, station building, view from road side, NR line.

P08582198 viewsYalgoo, station building, water tower, NR line.

P08738198 viewsEx MRWA F class 41 diesel loco, Moora, front and side view, on display

P08792198 viewsGangers shed, Bowelling, BN line, east of station building, side and front view.

P08831198 viewsStation building, Mingenew, MR line, trackside and end view.

P08907198 views23 of 29 views of the construction of the Wyalkatchem-Lake Brown-Southern Cross railway, WLB line. Football players in game played between Railways and Bencubbin, won by Railways