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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P14253166 viewsStation building, view of south side of island platform building, ER line.

P14287166 viewsStation building, front and end view, goods shed end view, nameboard, vans and wagons in the yard, Pemberton, PP line.

P14300166 viewsBreakdown train stores van VZ class 157, side and end view, Midland, ER line.

P14344166 viewsAQM class 287carriage, end and side view, Midland, ER line.

P14484166 viewsOrenstein & Koppel 0-6-0T, builders No.4241, Great Boulder mine, Kalgoorlie, builders plate (makers plate)

P02517166 viewsDD class steam locomotive on suburban passenger working, front and side view.

P02785166 viewsAdelaide Timber Co. loco Y 71, East Witchcliffe, side and front view,

P02869166 views2 of 4, G class 233 "Leschenault Lady" steam locomotive on a special passenger train, front view, Collie branch, c1968.

P14506166 viewsBogie and four wheel wagons loaded with harvesters, Salmon Gums, CE line, harvester repossessed from farmers unable to meet commitments due to the downturn in agricultural, view along the line of wagons.

P03439166 viewsLV & S Orenstein & Koppel steam locomotive, end and side view.

P04355166 views2 of 2, MRWA B class 6 steam locomotive, front and side view.

P04356166 viewsMRWA B class 7 steam locomotive, side view, crew on the footplate.

P14672166 viewsFS class 399, footbridge, Chidlow, ER line, ARHS tour train

T04387166 viewsX class 1015 "CHEANGWA", front and side view

T04396166 viewsGH class 18881, wheelbase lengthened to 13 feet, Westrail yellow livery, side view. (REF. Railway Institute Magazine, March, 1956)

P17039166 viewsS class 547 Lindsay at Midland Terminal presumably on a trial run. Signal gantry with searchlight signals. View shows the end of the tender, end and side view

P17043166 viewsS class 549 Greenmount at East Perth Loco. Note the suburban railcar in the shed and the water column & stand next to the locomotive.

P17045166 viewsS class 549 Greenmount on the turntable at East Perth Loco with manual power in operation. An unidentified X class and fuel tanker and footbridge in the background and stores shed to left front of locomotive.

P17048166 viewsF class 41, former Midland Railway diesel locomotive, at the head of a suburban train from Midland to Perth at East Perth, now Claisebrook.