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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P14893198 viewsM class 310 Garratt on No. 191 Mixed Goods,mn standing in front of the loco, Dwarda, PN line, side and front view.

P17604198 viewsC class 1701 diesel locomotive hauling a goods train near National Park. ER line. This would possibly have been one of the last trains to travel this section of line.

P17613198 viewsA class 1502 diesel locomotive hauling a goods train at Swan View. ER line. Note the nameboard and station building on platform.

P17952198 viewsJoondalup railway station, tracks and island platform below ground level, "swan wing" canopies at ground level, car park and bus interchange, NSR line

P01263198 viewsRA class 5614 open wagon, brown livery, end and side view, Bassendean, ER line.

P01276198 viewsZJ class 267 passenger brakevan, Midland Workshops, side and end view

P01876198 viewsBunnings loco YX class 86, Donnelly River, end and side view

P01967198 viewsJetty, Flinders Bay, BB line, view along the jetty

P15691198 viewsGER class 13059 later to be modified into the only all steel GE class, Rivervale, SWR line, end and non brake lever side view

T04491198 viewsDD class 595 steam locomotive running around its Royal Show train at Claremont. Note the use of ACL type carriages and Z class 9 brakevan in the green and cream livery , in the centre of the consist.

T04845198 viewsCliffs Robe River(CRRIA) M636 class 9422 in hold of vessel waiting to be unloaded at Cape Lambert

T04847198 viewsCliffs Robe River (CRRIA) M636 class 9422 being transported by road from Cape Lambert Wharf to Cape Lambert railway workshops for commissioning.

T04924198 viewsFour car DMU set, end of platforms, signal, pedestrian track crossing, two double slips, road, shops, Cottesloe, ER line, Saturday before closure of Fremantle line

T05131198 viewsJ class 101, in dark blue and light blue with yellow stripe coupled to a Matsia Track Recorder Car, rear and side view

T05225198 viewsPM class loco, on goods train including empty flat wagons with bolsters, Mundijong Junction, SWR line, rear and side view

T05265198 viewsTwo steam locos double heading ARHS tour train "South West Explorer" including AQZ class 417 and Z class van, passenger, halted at Yornup, PP line, view along the train towards the front

P21601198 viewsU class 658, off the track and on its side, points, diamond crossing, bracket signals, Spencers Brook, GSR line, top and front view from trackside, ER line.