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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P00595367 viewsAKB class 60 suburban carriage, side and end view

T00283367 viewsL class ballast hopper, LX class ballast plough, ballasting track

P00225366 viewsYardmaster's Office and control tower, Forrestfield. Holden Monaro parked in front of building.

P00565366 viewsPM class 713 having just emerged from the Swan View Tunnel, with an "up" goods train composed entirely of bogie vans

P00650366 viewsX class 1001 "YALAGONGA", "Westland" headboard, publicity photo when introduced

P00992366 viewsV class, entering deviation, Swan View, ER line, short goods train with a clerestory roofed brakevan

P01404366 viewsDM class on suburban passenger train to Fremantle, Perth Station, elevated view looking west.

P00053365 views16 of 98 images showing views and aspects of the construction of the steel girder bridge with concrete pylons across the Swan River at North Fremantle.

P00465365 viewsQJG class 12151 bogie flat wagon with "Refrigerated Container" No.2002 on board, side and end view.

P00910365 viewsStation buildings, platform, picket fence, carpark, Clackline, ER line, view from carpark

P07513365 viewsStation building, platform lamp, Chidlow's Well, ER line

P11728365 viewsWO class 31256 iron ore wagon, side view, first iron ore train, Kwinana yard. FM line.

P01581365 viewsQMD class 20053 car carrying wagon with a variety of Ford cars on board, side view.

P00286364 viewsWMB class triple deck car carrier, being loaded/unloaded, North Fremantle

P00411364 viewsGanger's tricycle with an internal combustion engine, side view

P00430364 viewsAYS class 461 buffet car, internal view looking towards the buffet counter, publicity photo

T03753364 viewsGER class 13100, GC class 40180, (ex MRWA Ac class) Maylands yard. Massey Harris (Ferguson) building in background

P02243364 viewsThe "Esperance Flyer" set, the Kalgoorlie to Esperance passenger train in the yard at Esperance, CE line, ADF class in the background.

P00448363 views2 of 4 views of the derailment of a bauxite train at Mundijong, XBC class 21007 bauxite hopper, derailed and on a lean, end and side view.