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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T03545142 viewsW class 931 double heading with another W class on a Narrogin bound goods train, Muja, BN line.

T03580142 viewsAP class 92, Bunbury Station

T03842142 viewsDD class 593, Mount Lawley, suburban passenger train

T03927142 viewsPWD loco "Kate" on NF class 22853 flat wagon, to be restored

T04014142 viewsTrack, dual gauge, Avon Valley Line, opposite view to T4013

T04117142 viewsDe Grey River Bridge when still a road - rail combined bridge

P12923142 views2 of 8 images of a derailment at Dumberning, BN line, derailed wagons piled up some almost vertical.Date of derailment 14/3/1934

P12927142 views6 of 8 images of a derailment at Dumberning, BN line, steam breakdown crane No.23 lifting a smashed wagon clear of the track, many onlookers who appear to be dressed in their "Sunday Best". Date of derailment 14/3/1934

P12929142 views8 of 8 images of a derailment at Dumberning, BN line, a derailed JA class water tank and the tender of the F class loco. Date of derailment 14/3/1934

P13102142 viewsW class 933, W class 934, Port Augusta, side and front view, in the ownership of the Pichi Richi Railway Preservation Society

P13107142 views1 of 3 views of the nose of Commonwealth Railways (CR) loco GM class 1 in original paint scheme showing the name of the loco "Robert Gordon Menzies" and the single horn

P13109142 views3 of 3 views of the nose of Commonwealth Railways (CR) loco GM class 1 in original paint scheme showing the name of the loco "Robert Gordon Menzies" and the single horn, side view of cab from the door forwards

P13243142 viewsXA class "TENMA" double heading with XA class "NOALA", nameboard, Murdong, GSR line, goods train

P13311142 viewsW class 903, south of Wagin, GSR line, goods train

P13467142 viewsAsh pits, Ravensthorpe loco depot, HR line, abandoned and derelict

P13488142 views6 of 9 images of the buildings and structures at Bayswater Station, ER line,

P13545142 views1 of 6 images of the construction of well wagon QX class 2300, at the Midland Workshops, the wagon was built under the direction of the photographer's father in law Jack Makin, elevated view of the frames of the wagon (Issued to traffic 29.8.1936, classified QX 2300 30.6.1937, rebuilt and rebogied 3.12.1955, reclassified to QY 25.11.1967.)