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:

Most viewed

P01724324 viewsFremantle yard, ER line, looking towards Perth, showing carriage sidings and loco depot, signals, points, Dalgety's wool stores, wharf crane.

P03011324 viewsB class 13 steam locomotive, front and side view, water column, cheese knob, Midland, ER line, c1940s.

P03411324 viewsDM class 586 steam locomotive on ARHS Coastal Twilighter No.1 tour, side and front view, Coogee, FA line.

P03848324 viewsFitting shop, block 3, Midland Workshops, Locomotive repair section, showing L class Westrail orange and TA shunter K class Westrail orange with blue chevron, R class Westrail orange with blue chevron. Ground level view along the workshop.

P00090323 views53 of 98 images showing views and aspects of the construction of the steel girder bridge with concrete pylons across the Swan River at North Fremantle.

P00876323 viewsALT class 5, track recorder car, side and front view, ex Sentinel steam railcar ASA class 445

P05483323 viewsW class 960 double heading with PR class 526 "Greenough", entering Pingelly, GSR line, goods train

P05804323 viewsFremantle Railway Bridge collapse which occurred on the afternoon of the 22nd of July, 1926, view along the side of the bridge showing the trusses collapsed into the river, See also P07086, P21471, ER line.

P05808323 viewsADH class railcar, interior view along corridor

P06003323 viewsCaron, EM line, distant view of station

P06110323 viewsS class, Clackline, ER line, in siding, with Up Perth goods

P06242323 viewsE class, station buildings, Mullewa, NR line, Wiluna Express

P07257323 views3 of 10 photos taken on the Upper Darling Range Railway, Zig Zag, UDRR line, view from bottom of Zig Zag looking up. MS class Garratt hauling a 4 carriage set, diverging tracks

P12518323 viewsRA class 1906, AB class 1532, Y class 1113, R class 1904, Geraldton loco depot, NR line

T00888323 viewsFootbridge, East Guildford, as new

P13931323 views8 of 32 images of the railway and jetty precincts of Busselton, BB line, four wheel D class type workman's near the jetty, steam crane in the background.

P01419323 views14 of 16 images of the pair of trestle bridges over the Canning River at Gosnells, SWR line, ADB class, ADK class railcar set on the bridge, view taken from the south east.