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

P00863319 viewsStation building, Gingin, trackside view, undergoing restoration

P04410319 views3 of 3 views of the experimental diesel loco built by Millars at the Yarloop workshops, side and end view

P05781319 viewsX class 1011 "BALGUA", "The Westland" express, just having exited the Swan View tunnel, ER line, probably a publicity photo

P06107319 viewsOA class 6, trestle bridge, crossing Denmark River, D line, goods train

P06419319 viewsR class towing a dead DA class, West Leederville Bank, goods train

P06610319 viewsAA class 217, Bunbury Station, lead carriage on special passenger train for Perth.

P06804319 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.

T00003319 viewsARHS Vic Div visit, MSA class 499 Garratt loco, trestle bridge, Nannup, WN line, heading tour train

T00815319 viewsMSA class 499 Garratt loco, turntable, Nannup, WN line, being turned, ARHS Vic Div visit, same as T0600

T03651319 viewsX class 1017 "EWENYOON", station buildings in background, Clackline, ER line, ARHS tour train

T03949319 viewsRBC class 11234 bulk cement wagon, end and side view

T04215319 viewsG class, workers riding on the NS class shunters float, Bunbury wharf, loco shunting the wharf.

T04290319 viewsPMR class 722, road overbridge, Clackline, ER line, head on view hauling an ARHS tour train

P01022319 viewsLoco "Ballaarat", Busselton, side view, "Hitler's Secret Weapon" written on the side of the bunker in chalk

P01420319 views15 of 16 images of the pair of trestle bridges over the Canning River at Gosnells, SWR line, ground level view between the bridges, south bound "Australind" on the bridge.

P02617319 viewsW class 908 running tender first, Yilliminning, NWM line, stopping for a staff change, on a Hotham Valley Railway tour train

P02808319 viewsDM class 586, consist of AF class 261, AS class, AW class, AT class and one other, suburban passenger working, near Showgrounds, ER line, elevated view looking down on the train

P03407319 viewsW class 916 steam locomotive, two AQZ first class sleeping carriages, brakevan, front and side view, footbridge, on ARHS tour, Collie, BN line.