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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P13382167 views26 of 67 views taken from an album of photos of the Midland Workshops c1905. Block three, - Interior Erecting Shop, South west Angle.

P13449167 viewsStation building, Woodanilling, GSR line, trackside view, the "Woody Tavern" in the background.

P13467167 viewsAsh pits, Ravensthorpe loco depot, HR line, abandoned and derelict

P13482167 viewsG class 123 coupled to FS class 491, portable shelter shed, yard, Beela, BN line, tour train entering the yard

P13538167 views1 of 2 views of the derailment of No. 30 Goods at Westfield, 29m, 3 ch on the FA line. Shows GH class 18975 being lifted by steam crane No.23, side view. Same derailment as shown in images P7943 - P7948. Date of derailment 10/3/1956

P13711167 viewsG class 233 "Leschenault Lady", chassis stripped down for overhaul

P13827167 viewsCoal stage, Collie, BN line, end view along the track

P13878167 views1 of 6 views of the station buildings at Subiaco, view of the end of the building on the island platform

P13919167 viewsRoundhouse, Bunbury, SWR line, view of the rear of the roundhouse.

P13935167 views12 of 32 images of the railway and jetty precincts of Busselton, BB line, steam winch mounted on a four wheel flat wagon, Cowans Sheldon six wheel hand crane coupled behind, end and side view.

P13950167 views27 of 32 images of the railway and jetty precincts of Busselton, BB line, W class 942 approaching a level crossing, loco depot in the background, same as P13924

P14111167 viewsTrackwork, Midland, gantry signals, single semaphore signals, view to the east, ER line.

P14222167 viewsUT class 664, JY class 1428 bogie tanker built on the underframe of a R class loco, East Perth loco depot, front and side view.

P14232167 viewsN class 263, being used as a steam cleaning loco, East Perth Loco Depot

P14359167 viewsStation building, front view, platform furniture, edge of crane and goods shed, Pemberton, PP line.

P14472167 viewsHarbour, Fremantle, elevated view across the harbour taken from the silos on the North Wharf, shows diesel loco shunting on the tracks servicing the wharf

P14495167 viewsStack of bagged wheat, Esperance Yard, CE line, view across the tracks, c1925

P14499167 viewsWheat stacks, Esperance Yard, Ce line, view across the yard taken from near Lot 45, Dempster Street.

P02530167 viewsW class 920 steam locomotive, front and side view, "The Shopper" diesel railcar set in the background, engine pit in the foreground, Bunbury, SWR line, c1970.

P02585167 views2 of 9 views of WAGR hand painted signs in the collection of the ARHS, "NOTICE Riding Bicycles On Ramps Of Overhead Bridge Strictly Prohibited"

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