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

P00920353 viewsMillars loco "DENMARK", hauling a log train in the bush, same as P7976.

P07253353 viewsK class loco, AD class carriage, Darlington, M line, train heading east.

T03218353 viewsMSA class 498 Garratt loco, Wonnerup, BB line, passenger train

P04011353 viewsAYL class 29 carriage, , lounge car, interior view, oval lounge with tables

P04262353 viewsSix two car EMU A series sets, stabled in station dead end road, Fremantle, ER line, awaiting departure to Subiaco Oval for Perth Glory v Wollongong football final

P02084353 views5 of 44 views of the construction of the railway at Esperance, CE line taken by Cedric Stewart, the resident WAGR engineer, H class 287, GC class 8573 with extended side and corrugated iron roof, side view

P00086352 views49 of 98 images showing views and aspects of the construction of the steel girder bridge with concrete pylons across the Swan River at North Fremantle.

P00287352 viewsMobile crane, overhead gantry crane, Kewdale yard, loading cable drums

P00307352 viewsAH class carriage, internal view of a compartment showing wash basin.

P00322352 viewsT class 167, side and front view

P00348352 viewsConcrete bridges, Woodbridge Triangle, West Midland,

P00679352 viewsUT class 664, East Perth loco depot, front and side view, same as P0971

P00784352 viewsE class Fairlie No.2, later to be No.7. Geraldton, side view with all the Geraldton workshops staff in the view. The gentleman in the bowler hat is Mr Clough, the locomotive superintendent at Fremantle transferred to Geraldton to supervise the erection of Fairlie No.2

P00839352 viewsG class tram No.38, front and side view

P05017352 viewsGWR loco "Pendennis Castle", Prospector railcar set, East Perth

P11071352 viewsVW class 40762, ex MRWA KB class 19, Mingenew, MR line, side view.

P13932352 views9 of 32 images of the railway and jetty precincts of Busselton, BB line, D class type work van, jetty precinct, side view.

P01417352 views12 of 16 images of the pair of trestle bridges over the Canning River at Gosnells, SWR line, ADK class 632 on the bridge, view taken from the north