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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P12959193 viewsXA class 1405 "WARIENGA" double heading with XA class 1407 "WIRNGIR", in yard, Shackleton, YB line, goods train

P13045193 viewsW class 945, X class 1006 "NANGAMADA", coal stage, loco depot, Northam, ER line, front and side view.

P13179193 viewsWater tower with a 25,000 gallon cast iron tank, water column and drain sump uprooted and lying on the ground, Menzies, KL line..

P13232193 views21 of 23 views of the destination boards on the platforms of Perth Station. These boards were removed on 4th and 5th of December, 1982. "Claremont Loch St Excepted"

P13324193 viewsNR class 39, west bound standard gauge freight, Brigadoon, front and side view

P13326193 viewsTrack north of Karridale, BB line showing a kink in the track due to heat from a bushfire

P13327193 viewsStation nameboard on ground, remains of the shed in the aftermath of a bushfire, Karridale, BB line.

P13366193 views10 of 67 views taken from an album of photos of the Midland Workshops c1905. Block One, - Interior Saw Mill, North West end.

P13428193 viewsWater tower foundations, stockyard, siding, Stake Well, NR line, view along the line.

P13584193 viewsADK/ ADB class four car railcar set, signal gantry with searchlight signals, departing Mount Lawley for East Perth

P13623193 viewsQU class 25001 with a Railway Road Service Commer truck about to drop the "Scammell" trailer on to the wagon, group of onlookers behind the wagon.

P13639193 viewsW class 913, approaching Swan View, ER line, ballast train

P13675193 viewsStation building, original Perth station, trackside view, large crowd on the platform which is decorated with flags and foliage on the occasion of the granting of self government to the colony of Western Australia on the 21st of October, 1890

P13963193 viewsCXB class 17583, end and side view

P14090193 viewsF class 40, private sidings, Wesfarmers Comeng, Rail Transport Museum, Bassendean, ER

P14137193 viewsXA class 1404 "PARDOO", XB class 1004 "KADJERDEN" on the "The Westland", crossing a steel girder bridge between Quairading and York, YB line on the day the Standard Gauge Avon Valley line opened.