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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P17123170 viewsOld station, tracks partly removed, bracket signal, eastbound goods train heading away from camera, Bellevue, ER line, c1966

P17451170 viewsFS class 423 steam locomotive on a ballast train at Balingup. PP line. Note the empty flat top wagon between the locomotive and empty ballast wagons.

P17462170 viewsFS class 461 steam locomotive in the yard at Boyanup. water tower with a 25,000 gallon cast iron tank. BB line.

P17485170 viewsF class 413 and P class 508 steam locomotives at Narrogin loco. GSR line.

P17620170 viewsW class 958 steam locomotive hauling a goods train over the Preston River bridge enroute from Boyup Brook. PP line. Concrete abutment and pylons, steel girders visible.

P17966170 viewsDB class 1590 "Shire of Collie", on export jarrah timber train, arriving Leighton, Fremantle port in background, Leighton beach, Leighton Yardmaster's Office fenced off, elevated view, ER line

P01141170 viewsWA class 23460 bogie cool storage van, WAGR Polar Bear emblem, WA class 23466, Rocket Express Service emblem, side view, Midland, ER line.

P01176170 viewsRBW class 11299, Leighton, brown livery, side view, end of DC class 21976 in the view.

P01229170 viewsJDA class 298, Kewdale, end and side view, being degassed

P01254170 viewsJRA class 257 bogie tanker built for Vacuum Oil, side view, Kewdale.

P01328170 viewsRCB class wooden bodied open wagon, end view, yellow livery, Collie, BN line.

P18112170 viewsX class 1022 "KARDAGUR", X class 1031 "YAUERA", Z class 1151 and XB class 1027 "MARANGAL" diesel locomotives stowed at Midland Workshops yard. X 1022 apparently involved in accident as front cowcatcher has been removed and front windows damaged. In background is ALT class 5 track recorder car.

P15014170 viewsRLSY class 18749 standard gauge bogie van in Sadleir's green livery, Sadleir's depot, Kewdale, end and side view.

P15073170 viewsSkillion roofed signal box, Byford, SWR line, side view, enlargement from P6118

P15297170 viewsXA class "TENMA" with "Albany Progress" nameboard, XA class "UNGARINYIN", shed, Albany, GSR line, side and front view.

P15393170 viewsV class 1202 narrow gauge steam locomotive and L class 262 standard gauge diesel locomotive crossing their respective trains in the Avon Valley. The V class was the largest steam locomotive and the L class was the largest diesel locomotive on the WA system.

P15409170 viewsAftermath of the Mornington Disaster, Wokalup, derailed and wrecked wagons, stacks of sleepers, many people standing around the site of the crash, phot probably taken the day after the crash as the sleepers are neatly stacked

P02062170 viewsSteam crane, bridge construction, side view, possibly Guildford

P02146170 views36 of 44 views of the construction of the railway at Esperance, CE line taken by Cedric Stewart, the resident WAGR engineer, Esperance jetty with ship tied up and horse and wagons on jetty.