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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P14705149 viewsSemaphore signals, York, GSR line.

P14732149 viewsGE class 12513 high-sided wagon in yellow livery, side and end view, Bassendean, ER line.

T04390149 viewsGHB class 21585 with ridge pole in Westrail yellow livery, "Fertiliser Traffic" stencilled on the side and end view

P14810149 views7 of 21 images of the railway precinct and station buildings at Subiaco, c1969, island platform building, signal box, main platform canopy, view looking east along the platform

P14967149 viewsWatco loco FL class 220 double heading with CBH class 120 on standard gauge grain train, Swan View, view long the train

P17085149 viewsDM class 588 steam locomotive on a Kewdale shunt, stacks of sleepers, SWR line.

P17121149 viewsAftermath of smash, overturned and damaged goods vans, Booraan, EGR line

P17137149 viewsG class 71 locomotive at Yarloop at the head of the Vintage Train prior to entering the Yarloop Workshops complex. Front & side view of loco. Yarloop Station platform & building on left and portion of goods shed on right background. SWR line.

P10303149 viewsXA class "UNGARINYIN" in Westrail orange livery, double heading with another XA class on a tour train entering Perth Station, view from the Barrack Street Bridge looking east.

P10343149 viewsA class 1514 diesel locomotive in Westrail orange livery, long end leading, hauling rake of four wheel empty open wagons, passing Subiaco. Rails in yard have been removed.

P10376149 viewsADF class 492 "Grevillea" heading a four car "Wildflower" set, approaching Upper Swan storage siding, view along the set, Avon Valley line.

P17452149 viewsFS class 423, W class 922, 917 steam locomotives, FS hauling an empty ballast train and the W's hauling a goods trains. PP line, location Unknown.

P17460149 viewsFS class 452 steam locomotive working a ballast train on the PP line. Location Unknown.

P17513149 viewsPMR class 730, on goods train, near Swan View, ER line

P17694149 viewsDD class 596 hauling a special tour train hired by the Girl Guides, west bound on the SWR line between Welshpool and Queens Park, brakevan behind the loco

P17755149 viewsPMR class 727 steam locomotive on the Muja shunt service crossing the Collie River Bridge. BN line. Note the steel girders on the bridge and the concrete pylons.

P17842149 viewsK class 207 diesel locomotive passing over the last link of the standard gauge line at Kalgoorlie. Note the close proximity of the spectators to the locomotive and the coloured bunting. Sir David Brand, State Premier, is at the controls of the locomotive.

P17860149 viewsWindmill Hill Cutting east of Toodyay as seen from the top of the cutting looking in an easterly direction. Note the bank shaping process utilised. The portion of the cutting to the right is 100' high.