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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P01338130 viewsVW class, ex V class bogie van, Bunbury, SWR line, side view, corrugated iron roof, three side windows.

P01340130 viewsVW class 5146, ex AQC class, Bunbury, SWR line, end and side view.

P01381130 viewsDW class 1350 workmen's van, yellow livery with corrugated iron roof, stencilled "Mobile Gang 503", Narrogin, GSR line, end and side view.

P01382130 viewsVW class 5086, ex ZA brakevan, yellow livery, Narrogin, GSR line, side and end view.

P01956130 viewsSEC electric loco No.1, side and front view

P01960130 viewsWharf, Geraldton, under construction, elevated view along the wharf, ship SS Amalthus berthed at the wharf.

P18060130 views3 of 11 Construction of new Perth City station, DMUs standing at platforms 4 and 6, services to Perth and Armadale, supports for new roof, pedestrian overpass, Perth City station

P15206130 viewsOverhead gantry crane, Parkeston, TAR line, unloading timber form WAGR wagons and being loaded onto Commonwealth Railways (CR) wagons

P15298130 viewsXA class "TENMA" with "Albany Progress" nameboard, shed, Albany, GSR line, front view.

P02030130 viewsRailway officials, group photo, back row, left to right C. R. May, C. R. Stewart, G. R. Fruin. Front row left to right, W. E. Wood, S. J. Hood, H. A. Creswell, L. Stubbs, H. J. Bromilow, c1934

P02062130 viewsSteam crane, bridge construction, side view, possibly Guildford

P02124130 viewsDerailment of a DC class wagon, Unknown location, chute set up against the DC

P15616130 viewsWestrail WW class 32103P grain hopper, Yellow livery with "Westrail" painted on the side in blue, coupled to a badly damaged WW class, Forrestfield Yard, side view

P15642130 viewsZS class 539 brakevan with knuckle couplers, Westinghouse brakes and a radio equiped logo, in a very weathered all over Westrail yellow livery, Geraldton, NR line, guards end and side view

T04493130 viewsS class 549 steam locomotive 'Greenmount' arriving at East Perth from Midland, possibly after overhaul.

T04532130 viewsA very short goods train departing Claremont for Perth. See T4531.

T04558130 viewsADX class 670 , Nanking blue and light grey livery, stainless steel cowcatcher, coupled to an ADA class railcar trailer in the red and white with red stripe livery, ADX 670 ran in this livery from 7.7.1966 to 22.10.1968, Perth Station, ER line, view along the cars,

P15979130 viewsXA class 1415 "WURARA", in green with red and yellow stripe livery, suspended in mid air without wheels whilst undergoing refurbishment, crowd of onlookers, Fitting Shop, Midland Workshops, view from beneath loco

P10630130 viewsAn unidentified RA Class narrow gauge diesel locomotive at the head of a woodchip train enroute from Manjimup to Bunbury crossing the Blackwood River bridge at Bridgetown, PP line.