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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P13501157 views1 of 5 views of a derailment, date and location Unknown, view shows derailed and smashed wagons with bagged wheat strewn on the ground.

P13766157 viewsRailway employees picnic, Point Walter, group photo.

P13907157 views3 of 3 views of the "Linen Store" in the Perth Yard west of the Carriage Sheds, overall view of the area showing a bracket signal and the Carriage Sheds.

P14056157 viewsWater tower, cast iron water tank with only one side and the bottom and internal struts showing, water tank being erected or demolished.

P14057157 viewsWater tower, 25,000 gallon cast iron water tank, view of two sides, ladder and water level indicator, Broad Arrow, KL line.

P14113157 viewsX class 1002 "BIBBULMUN" hauling a passenger train.

P14142157 viewsCommonwealth Railways (CR) dining carriage, internal view of the galley with the crew..

P14152157 viewsP class with bar cowcatcher, Midland Workshops, side and front view.

P14240157 viewsFS class 416, Kalgoorlie loco Depot, EGR line, side and front view

P14244157 viewsW class 912, first new W class loco to arrive in Kalgoorlie, EGR line, side and front view.

P14273157 viewsStation buildings, front view, nameboard, fence, Benger, SWR line.

P14421157 viewsOffice building of the "WAGR Chief Civil Engineer", Wellington Street, Perth, front on view

P14441157 viewsTimber bridge Beela, BN line, a one span bridge with vertical timber abutments.

P03550157 viewsW class 929, photo stop on an ARHS tour train, Manjimup, PP line, front view.

P14603157 viewsV class 1221, water tower, goose neck yard lamp, location Unknown, goods train

P14626157 viewsG class 67, NS class shunters float, Bunbury jetty, heading a train of GSW class wheat hoppers

P14734157 viewsDB class 1585 "Shire of Harvey" diesel locomotive in Westrail orange livery, front view, Albany, GSR line.

P14786157 views3 of 4 images of the railway infrastructure at the wharf at Albany, row of wagons on the approach track to the wharf.

P17033157 viewsPR class 523 in the crossing loop, with a goods train between York and Narrogin on the GSR line. Note the frame work of the CBH holding pen in the right background. The JGS class tank on the wagon behind the loco is used for hauling furnace oil.