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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P02367151 views"Urgent Traffic" wagon card on a wagon

P02479151 viewsW class, Midland, front and side view, shunting

P02515151 viewsR class 174 steam locomotive outside the Railway Institute at Midland, side view.

P03399151 viewsO class steam locomotive, side and front view.

P14504151 viewsCrowd assembled in front of a platform ended carriage for the official opening of the Esperance to Salmon Gums Railway, CE line oil station lamp in the view

P03559151 viewsPWD wagons at Bunbury, includes side tipping wagons, view along the rake of wagons

P03582151 views6 of 7 images of the Cowans Sheldon 60 ton breakdown crane No.31, side view of the crane and match truck

P03769151 views2 of 4: Tamper machine on standard gauge north of Kalgoorlie, end on view.

P04344151 views1 of 2, MRWA C class 17 steam locomotive, front and side view.

T04377151 viewsX class 1023 "KARIERA",on test at loco shed, front and partial side view

P14829151 viewsX class 1003 "DITU-WONGA" diesel locomotive on the last Australind in the all green livery prior to overhaul, elevated view of carriages and loco in the distance, Bunbury, SWR line.

P14891151 viewsM class 391 Garratt, mixed train, Plavins 12 kms beyond Dwellingup, PN line, bunker leading, same as P07596

P17050151 viewsTrackwork being undertaken at Bellevue leading up to the introduction of the dual gauge Avon Valley line.

P17070151 viewsPR class 529 steam locomotive and tow other steam locomotives on the scrap road, Midland workshops.

P10370151 viewsDA class 1573 Westrail Orange, long end leading Perth bound between Cottesloe and Locke Street with long train of empty XW class grain wagons for Avon Yard. Side and end view, left hand side of locomotive. Old Cottesloe Flour Mill visible together with a display of Norfolk Pine trees.

P10381151 viewsADG class 618 suburban diesel railcar with louvre van, on an all stations to Cannington service approaching the Lord Street level crossing, East Perth, This was a regular daily service with a louvre van for parcels traffic to Cannington. note the open doors on the railcar, side and front view.

P17425151 viewsFS class 452, on goods train, standing at station, goods shed, station building, Dardanup, PP line

P17638151 viewsDM class 585 steam locomotive about to depart with the Perth to Cannington suburban service from the Armadale Dock at City Station. ER Line. Partial view of rear of tender. Note overhead advertising on roof guttering edge.