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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P17068170 viewsScrap road, steam locomotive being scrapped, scrap road Midland workshops.

P17354170 views2 of 2, W class 905 steam locomotive, front and side view, on goods train, Duranillin, WB line.

P10273170 viewsF class steam loco, light engine, signals, road over bridge, Subiaco yard, overall view of the yard looking east

P10400170 viewsASD class 374, former AS class suburban carriage fitted out as travelling trades exhibition coach, internal view looking along the carriage.

P17413170 viewsW class loco, V class loco, double heading goods train, passing through rural countryside, c1969

P17584170 views2 of 3, PR class 521 "Ashburton" steam locomotive on ARHS tour train, end of passenger platform, loading bank and crane, goods shed, 10,000 gallon round tank on water tower, tracks, front and side view, Brookton, GSR line.

P17594170 viewsAn unidentified A class diesel locomotive hauling a goods train exiting the Tunnel Bypass in the Darling Ranges. ER line. Note the cross rail for track gang vehicles to change direction.

P17845170 viewsWW class 32036 loaded on a Commonwealth Railways (CR) flattop wagon at Parkeston prior to unloading to road. In the background are grounded motor vehicles waiting transfer to narrow gauge wagons and the uprights of the standard gauge car transporter wagons. Note the view of the wheat hopper.

P17853170 viewsPM class 714 and V class 1223 steam locomotives at an unidentified location between Narrogin and York with 12 goods. GSR line. Side/Front view of PM class evident and partial side view of V class. Train is about to go over a concrete pipe culvert.

P17903170 views2 of 2 Newgold crossing near Port Hedland airport, view of derailer installed on the Mount Newman Railroad line on one side of the crossing. A similar derailer was installed on the other side of the crossing as well, since Goldsworthy trains had right of way as that line was constructed first

P17909170 views1 of 3 Ballast working at East Guildford, K class 201 on ballast train, workmen on front platform of loco, edge of station platform, East Guildford, ER line

P01340170 viewsVW class 5146, ex AQC class, Bunbury, SWR line, end and side view.

P01367170 viewsNF class 22801, brown livery, Forrestfield Yard, in a line of other flat wagons

P01376170 viewsZ class 534, Narrogin, GSR line, end and side view.

P18001170 viewsL class 268, on 1284 the "Trans-Australian" express, light signal, carpark, Perth Terminal, ER line, inaugural service to Perth

P18054170 viewsG class 233 "Leschenault Lady", tanker wagon, G class 123, Wagerup loop, SWR line, view from elevated position

P18243170 viewsW class loco, on goods train, station building, platform, goods shed, Balingup, PP line, c1966

P15229170 viewsN Class 1880, on ilmenite train comprising XY wagons, Kwinana, little david points levers. The wagons were built for the new mineral sands plant at Chandala near Muchea and used to transport sand to Kwinana for processing.