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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P02716192 viewsES class 340 steam locomotive (North British), front and side view, Perth, ER line.

P02717192 viewsWestralia Timber & Firewood Company G class 4 steam locomotive, side view, builder's photo.

P02782192 viewsDM class 581, suburban carriage set, Ashfield. suburban passenger working.

P02795192 viewsWBC class 861 standard gauge brakevan. Islington Works, South Australia, on transfer bogies, bogies on a flat wagon coupled to the brakevan, side view.

P02846192 viewsP class 502 steam locomotive with short tender off PR class 538, side and front view, c1960.

P02994192 viewsA class 11 steam locomotive, front and side view, Midland.

P03130192 viewsSearchlight signals Nos.5A and 5B, Bonnie Vale, view looking along the track.

P03223192 viewsPR class 138, "Ashburton", half side view, showing single-pin drawgear between loco and tender

P14502192 viewsW Class 919 on WFL Class standard gauge transfer wagon, Esperance Yard, CE line, loco arriving for display at the Esperance Museum, side and front view

P03494192 viewsN class 27,4.4.4T,at Perth station, Side and Front view, Background Bairds and Boans Stores Perth

P03564192 viewsWAGR open top container with tarpaulin, side view.

P03784192 viewsSubway, Shenton Park, ER line, motor cars passing through, street level view

P03946192 views2 of 2, WMC (Western Mining Company) WN class standard gauge nickel concentrate tanker in as new condition, side and end view.

P04032192 views4 of 5 images, XE class wagons, loading with mineral sands, Eneabba, DE line

P04037192 viewsRA class 1907, Westrail orange with blue and white stripe, on mineral sands train, loading, Eneabba, DE line, view from opposite side of tracks to P4036

P04388192 viewsFour-wheeled tram No.61, side view, Perth.

P14605192 viewsV class 1223, West Perth, ER line, goods train.

T04330192 viewsDB class 1593 "Shire of Northam" and DB class 1584 "Shire of Waroona" diesel locomotives in Westrail orange livery on a ballast train of 1 XH class wagon and 1 XM class wagon, Whitfords, NSR line.

P17561192 views4 of 6 W class 916 steam locomotive heads Holiday weekender, crossing Hamilton River Bridge en route Collie-Brunswick Junction side and front view.