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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P10056144 viewsTurntable, Forrestfield Yard, during installation. (ref: "Westrail", Vol 3, No.5, May 1978)

P10055144 viewsBridges, concrete, Woodbridge Triangle, newly constructed

P10068144 viewsControl tower and office, West Kalgoorlie, when new.

P10073144 viewsA class 1505, loco depot, Avon Yard, under construction

P10130144 viewsC class 1703, having departed Subiaco heading for Daglish, suburban passenger train.

P10158144 viewsQX class 2300 trolley wagon with "Stator" load being shunted onto special track at the East Perth Power Station, side view.

P11028144 viewsStation building, nameboard, Minnivale, GM line, trackside view

P11041144 viewsStation buildings, Swanbourne, view from down side looking across the tracks

P11082144 viewsOut of shed, gangers shed, Ockley, NWM line, front and side views

P11090144 viewsOut of shed, loading platform, Harrismith, NKM line, nameboard on the rear side of the shed

P11123144 viewsXB class 1008 "WARRANGOO" double heading with XA class 1415 "WURARA", near Coyrecup, KP line, goods train.

P11125144 viewsXA class 1406 "UNGARINYIN", Peringillup, GSR line, goods train

P11130144 viewsUpturned and abandoned 4 wheel wagon, Pemberton, wagon covered with the undergrowth

P11141144 viewsTrack, Austin, NR line, view along track looking south.

P11190144 viewsTrestle bridge over the Avon River, Kweda, BC line

P11623144 viewsDD class 600, short goods train of one open wagon and four M class coal box wagons, trestle bridge, Guildford. ER line.

P11751144 viewsS class 546, tour train, out of shed, loading ramp, nameboard, Byford. SWR line.

P11871144 viewsU class 655, water column, East Perth loco shed. ER line.

P12004144 views4 of 12 official portraits of the Chief Mechanical Engineers of the WAGR and Westrail, (ref: "A History of W.A.G.R... Steam Locomotives" by A. Gunzburg, page 150), Mr F. Mills, 1940-1949

P12031144 views9 of 12 images of the construction of the Kwinana to Jarrahdale railway. (ref: The Railway Institute Magazine, July 1963).view shows a mobile compressor being hauled by a tractor

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