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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P1966152 viewsPlate laying gang - loading rails on to plate laying trolley. Location unknown.

P1966248 viewsLoading sleepers on to plate laying trolley. Location unknown.

P1966350 viewsHorse pulling plate laying trolley to head of line. Location unknown.

P1966448 viewsPulling rails from trolley and placing them onto sleepers. Location unknown

P1966549 viewsInstalling fish plates onto rail. Horse in background. Location unknown.

P1966645 viewsInstalling dog spikes. Location unknown.

P1966749 viewsInstalling dog spikes and fish plates. Location unknown.

P1966852 viewsBoorabbin - Oppenheimer telegraph pole 3490 with 3 cross arms. EGR line

P1966952 viewsBoorabbin - View looking along the railway with line of Oppenheimer poles on right side. EGR line.

P1967047 viewsBoorabbin - Oppenheimer junction pole. EGR line.

P1967155 viewsGilgai - oppenheimer pole in foreground and Goldfields water pumping station in background. EGR line.

P1967272 viewsBayswater - photo taken early 1900 shows the up and down lines with bush and trees on both sides of the track. ER line

P1967363 viewsFremantle- an early photo of Fremantle jetty showing sailing ships anchored in bay and bond store in foreground. ER line.

P1967478 viewsKalgoorlie - 8 Hour Day celebration. Mock up of Kalgoorlie B Cabin built by R. Krauth Goods Foreman Boulder City. EGR line.

P1967556 viewsSafe working training room.

P1967670 viewsBunbury - Sleeper powellising plant. The process treated karri sleepers against white ant infestation and dry rot. The process was developed to extend the life of jarrah forests. SWR line.

P1967781 viewsWalter (Wally) Watts (1872-1946), Watts worked as a blacksmith at the Midland Junction Workshops where he invented and patented a number of track devices (points and crossings) including a universal movement switch.