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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T04578125 views X class "INGARRA"diesel locomotive hauling the Australind train over the level crossing at Welshpool, SWR line.

P10556125 viewsTwo car Prospector set stabled at the 'Esperance Dock' at Kalgoorlie Railway Station.

P10599125 viewsAmmonium nitrate containers being positioned to be emptied into road trailers at Meekatharra, gantry crane

P15808125 viewsNW class 21513 four wheel open deck flat wagons for transporting iron ore containers, yellow livery, old Northam Yard, end and side view.

P10602125 views2 of 2. Underwater coal storage dam at Midland Junction. Gantry used to reclaim coal for locomotive use. Wagons alongside crane possibly being loaded for country depots.

T04620125 viewsV class 1222 steam locomotive and an unidentified Z class brakevan, Koojedda, ER line, side and font view.

T04937125 viewsPMR class 735, signal, carpark, Channel 7 studios, side and front view

T04955125 viewsDA class 1572, on No 18 freighter including flat bed wagons, tanker wagons, and vans, crossing culvert, power line pylon, near Woodbridge, ER line

T04960125 viewsEx MRWA G class 51, original MR livery, side and end view

T04975125 viewsWood chip unloading facility, surrounded with cyclone and barbed wire fence, Bunbury, SWR line

T04993125 viewsPWD steam loco 19 (ex WAGR G class 50, ex NAR NGA class 80), tanks, silos, scaffold, side tipping wagon mostly obscured, Bunbury, side view

P16667125 viewsOverview of old Perth city station, with four trains standing at various platforms, including X class 1005 "MEANANGER" in Westrail orange with blue and white stripe, on passenger train, three other suburban DMUs, station building, overhead footbridge, trackwork, signals, canopies, platforms, Perth station, elevated view

T05170125 viewsBHP Iron Ore (BHPIO) C36-7M class 5512 leads 2 other unidentified locomotives hauling an empty iron ore train between Newman and Port Hedland.

P16801125 viewsCommonwealth Railways (CR) - TAR line workers erecting buildings at Naretha. Quarry crushing plant in background. c1916

P19021125 viewsSEC loco No. 1, rotary tippler, East Perth Power Station, elevated view along the track.

P19140125 viewsX class (all green livery) hauled passenger train near Swan View. Rear view of train photo taken from Swan View platform of train heading to Midland. Three position upper quadrant signal in photo. NR line.