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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P17612201 viewsADF class 493 "Hovea" Wildflower unit at safe working shed at Avon Yard while working a special to Albany. EGR line. Note the out of commission automatic signal and rollingstock to left,

P17623201 viewsW class 913 steam locomotive on a Boyup Brook to Bunbury goods train, No 226, shunting at Queenwood. DK line. Note station nameboard and out of shed. See P17622

P17692201 viewsDD class 588, on 6:10 pm Armadale to Perth one carriage passenger service comprising AS class car, station building, platform, Kelmscott, SWR line

P01112201 viewsJOA class 12051, North Fremantle, end and side view.

P01136201 viewsWA class 23453 bogie cool storage van, WAGR Polar Bear emblem, Rocket Express Service emblem, side view, Midland, ER line.

P01144201 viewsZJ class 267 brakevan, green and cream livery, side view, Midland, ER line.

P01180201 viewsQRC class 7046 with container on board, Leighton, side view

P01267201 viewsAQS class 294 second class carriage underbody detail, Bassendean, ER line.

P01314201 viewsSignal lamps being refilled, Perth, ER line.

P01389201 viewsCCE depot, Narrogin, GSR line, view across the depot with stacks of timber in the foreground.

P01399201 viewsP class 449, loco shed, side and front view

P01975201 viewsLarge crowd at the ceremony for the "Turning of the first sod" of the Perth to Fremantle railway at Perth, same as P21186

P15224201 viewsGoldsworthy GML class 10, Forrestfield, on delivery trip across Australia, end and side view, c1990

P02080201 views1 of 44 views of the construction of the railway at Esperance, CE line taken by Cedric Stewart, the resident WAGR engineer, worker's tents and amenities hut.

T04408201 views6 of 38 images of Commonwealth Railways (CR) "Tea and Sugar" train on trip from Port Augusta to Parkeston on the TAR line by Clyde Shoebridge and Peter Sage in December 1963 to January 1964, track ahead, crossing, horn, view from cab of GM class 16

P10402201 viewsEast Perth Signal Box, interior view, showing signal levers and signal diagram. CTC Panel for Goodwood - Rivervale at far right. Signalling instruments mounted on shelf above lever frame.

P10500201 viewsGroup photo of the Existing Lines Staff, names L - R, front row, Westhoven, Seddon, McCracken, Masterson, Hatfield, Winslade, Webster, Seldon, Veale, Riva, Jenkins, Second row: Watson, F. Whitwell, E. Pope, J. Brown, R. Bleazby, H. Dowson, J. Pidgeon, E. E. Light, T. Watson, T. Duncan, S. Ogden, A. Chessell, W. Waygh, S. Gregg. Third row: W. Digby, G. Bernberg, S. Isaason, L. Helffenstein, H. Cresswell, M. O'Reilly, H. Sergeant, F. Maxwell, Johnstone, F. Crormmellin, P. Bindley, Bell. Fourth row: C. May, Donnelly, T. Newton, Hannah, Tomkins, F. Oliver, Bromilow, Harper, S. Bone, A. N. Davies, Hanley, Pope, Burnett, Wright, Stevenens. fifth row: Ramsay, Bowra, H. Rendall, Roberts, A. Tzelepis, A. Lunt, Jackson, Milligan, T. Omerod, C. Wickham, Sundercombe, sixth row: Gibbons, Haynes, Hall, Mose. (Scanned print located in G13B)

P16016201 viewsWestrail Roadside Urgent Traffic notice, attached to VF class 23322, bogie van, Geraldton to Mount Magnet, NR line, close up view of notice