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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P00562282 viewsU class 663 double heading with a PR class, ER line, goods train

P00675282 viewsIdentification discs on signal lever frame, Mount Magnet, NR line

P00784282 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

P06624282 viewsD class 246 stencilled as "Jetty 246", Albany wharf, painted white with a red cross on the door

P09221282 viewsQJH class 14552 bogie flat wagon with a load of pipes, Moora, MR line end and side view.

P01073282 views1 of 3 views of the derailment of No. 11 Mixed, at the 51 mile point near Indarra, NR line, on the 2nd March 1932, showing derailed wagons piled up across the track. Photo taken from the top of the JA class water tank still attached to the loco of the derailed train and looking towards Geraldton. Loco showing in the distance is that of the special train which was following No.11, the derailed train.

P02209282 viewsFD class 14292, the only all steel FD, stowed at Pantapin, YB line, side view. c1985

P00294281 viewsWestern Mining's nickel concentrate plant at Kwinana, nickel concentrate wagons in the background, overall view of the plant.

P00302281 viewsCeremony for the launch of the Prospector railcar, East Perth Terminal, view of the invited guests sitting on the platform

P00891281 viewsMillars locos No.70 "Kanowna" and No.71 "Menzies", loco shed, Yarloop

P00940281 viewsA class 1511 double heading with another A class, Geraldton foreshore, NR line, iron ore train

P04412281 viewsMillars loco "Wellington", side view, builder's photo

P05818281 viewsTurntable, remains of at Toodyay

P07262281 views8 of 10 photos taken on the Upper Darling Range Railway, Zig Zag, UDRR line, view from top of Zig Zag . MS class Garratt loco hauling a passenger train on middle leg.

P13133281 viewsXA class 1411 "WEEDOOKARRI" double heading with XB class 1004 "KADJERDEN", nameboard, Holly, DK line, front and side view, goods train.