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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P14285150 viewsStation building, end and road-side view, goods shed, crane, wagons, Quairading, YB line.

P14291150 viewsBrakevan Z class 530, brakevan Z class 479, RA class bogie high-sided wagon, side view, Midland, ER line.

P14342150 viewsAQZ class carriage, first class carriage, end platform, end and side view, Midland, ER line.

P14367150 viewsX class 1002 BIBBULMUN, front view, Busselton, BB line.

P14516150 views3 of 4 photos of probably the last military train movement of a unit in Western Australia. 13 field Squadron RAE Army Reserve travelled from Kewdale Yard to Morawa, Photos taken at Morawa, EM line, view along the train showing the military vehicles on the flat wagons.

P03438150 viewsA class 11 steam locomotive, side view, preserved at South Perth Zoo.

P03439150 viewsLV & S Orenstein & Koppel steam locomotive, end and side view.

P04345150 views2 of 2, MRWA C class 17 steam locomotive, front and side view.

P04354150 views1 of 2, MRWA B class 6 steam locomotive, side view.

P04360150 viewsG class 233 steam locomotive, front view, wood pile, foot bridge.

P14779150 views2 of 6 images of the station precinct and buildings at Elleker, c1970, water towers, water columns, side and end view

P14798150 views1 of 3 images of the station buildings at Quairading, YB line, station building, end and trackside view

P14817150 views14 of 21 images of the railway precinct and station buildings at Subiaco, c1969, signal box, step end view

P14818150 views15 of 21 images of the railway precinct and station buildings at Subiaco, c1969, main platform taken fro the island platform

P14875150 viewsW class 914 steam locomotive on goods train, approaching Midland Junction from West Midland, dog-box carriages and rows of steam locomotives, coal dam gantry, semaphore signals and wagons in the background, ER line.

P17032150 viewsPR class 523 hauling a goods train over a wooden bridge between York & Narrogin on the GSR line. Note the cement hopper wagons and fuel tanks in the load.

P17039150 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

P17071150 viewsCrane and workmen cutting and handling parts of scrapped steam locomotives, Midland scrap yard.

P17082150 viewsG class 233 "Leschenault Lady" on tour train, ACM class carriages, brakevan, station building, water tower, edge of goods shed, Yarloop, SWR line.