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

P08337293 viewsA series EMU, Subiaco, views show progress on the new tunnel

P12230293 viewsAYB class 456, impact point, Gingin accident. MR line.

T01849293 viewsWAR class refrigerated vans, Midland Workshops

T04290293 viewsPMR class 722, road overbridge, Clackline, ER line, head on view hauling an ARHS tour train

P03206293 viewsC class 440 steam locomotive, front and side view, passenger carriage, Geraldton, NR line.

P03809293 viewsL class 255, light and dark blue with yellow lining, front and side view

P04244293 viewsHotham Valley Railway V class 5 and Y class 1116, Hotham Valley Railway depot, Dwellingup, PN line, side and front views

P00083292 views46 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.

P00464292 views TA class bogie cattle wagon, side and end view.

P00514292 viewsLoco "Ballaarat", Busselton side view, on display.

P05069292 viewsC class 86 brakevan, later reclassified as a Z class van

P05531292 viewsStation Bellevue, ER line, looking east

P06778292 viewsRBW class, grain elevator, wheat bin, Cunderdin, EG line, loading grain into wagons

P06804292 viewsJames Henry Curnick, head painter at the Midland Workshops alongside the Royal Coat of Arms that was on the loco that hauled the Duke of York's Royal Train from Perth to Pinjarra and return.

P07016292 views5 of 7 photos of the construction of the Cue - Big Bell railway, NR line, laying final pair of rails

P07068292 viewsFS class 399, water column, Chidlow, ER line, on ARHS tour train, tender being refilled, rear view of tender.

T04215292 viewsG class, workers riding on the NS class shunters float, Bunbury wharf, loco shunting the wharf.

P01711292 viewsStation buildings Pinjarra, looking south from the footbridge, nameboard, loco and carriage sheds, water column, passenger platform, "Change Here for Hotham Valley Branch" sign, signals, SWR line.