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:

Most viewed

P02073151 views9 of 12 views of the construction of a railway dam at Hillman, BN line, view from top of Back Rock looking down towards the channel from Back Rock

P02101151 views22 of 44 views of the construction of the railway at Esperance, CE line taken by Cedric Stewart, the resident WAGR engineer, line of worker's tents

P15638151 viewsDB class four wheel van with a ventilated floor for perishable traffic, Rivervale, SWR line, side view

P15666151 viewsASG class Garratt articulated steam locomotive, side view of the bunker and rear tank.

T04485151 viewsDD steam locomotive 591 operating bunker leading through Perth Station with Midland bound freight train. This scene has changed over the years.

P15811151 viewsH class 18, Bunbury, rear and side view, group of four people posing in front of the loco

P15843151 viewsTurntable, shunters cabin, Fremantle Yard, elevated view from the footbridge, the liner Himalaya at "F" Berth in the background

P15881151 viewsDB class 1581 "City of Bunbury" with another diesel loco, in Westrail orange with blue and white stripe livery, on bauxite train, in rural setting, side and front view

P15963151 viewsN class 1874, and another diesel loco, both in Westrail orange with blue and white stripe livery, double heading a goods train, side and front view

P10647151 viewsAustral Standard Cables rolls being lifted by Rapier mobile crane, Vickers Hoskins 25 ton overhead crane, Commonwealth Railways (CR) flat wagon (largely obscured), WQCX class 30123 flat wagon (largely obscured)

P10646151 viewsM class 1851, in green livery with red and yellow stripe, shunting wagons over the hump, control tower, shunters building (largely obscured), signal, assorted wagons in ladder sidings, culvert, Forrestfield marshalling yard, c1970

P16001151 viewsPlasser mobile maintenance machine, operator, rural setting, side and rear view

P16010151 viewsMount Lawley Subway, steel girder bridge, in preparation for the laying of standard gauge tracks over bridge, cars emerging from subway, shop advertising "Hills Hoists"

P16132151 viewsA class 1514, A class 1513, iron ore train, in a cutting out of Morawa, NR line, view along the train

P16257151 viewsRail tracks over bridge showing expansion joints, safety platforms, adjacent concrete and steel bridge, Swan River, Guildford, ER line

P16296151 viewsBunbury Station with possibly the last Australind to service the station. Y class diesel shunter in view. Interesting there are no high visibility clothing evident.