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

P18457146 views5 of 5 images of S class 548 and W class 921 double heading Donnybrook to Bridgetown special goods train on PP line, passing through cutting, view down onto the passing locos

P15480146 viewsQUT class 25083U bogie flat wagon. converted from a QUA class to carry track, Coondle, CM line, side view

P15486146 viewsFive pipe culvert, ten kilometres south of York near the intersection of the Great Southern Highway and Ovens road, GSR line, west side, taken from the same position as P15451

P15542146 viewsSteam crane restored at the Dardanup Heritage Park, front and side view, believed to be the crane that once operated on the Busselton jetty

P02106146 views27 of 44 views of the construction of the railway at Esperance, CE line taken by Cedric Stewart, the resident WAGR engineer, worker's tents, one without covering.

P02133146 views2 of 9 views of a derailment of No 26 Mixed on 26/6/1926, near Konnongorring, EM line, smashed wagons

P15612146 viewsSCT ARBY class 2677R refrigerated van, white livery with red "SCT" motif and a black stripe along the side, Forrestfield Yard, end and partial side view

P15655146 viewsWatco Australia loco G class 511 in the yellow and black livery passing through the site of the Rail Transport Museum heading towards UGL's plant in Bassendean, side and leading end view

P15658146 viewsPacific National NR class 30 departing the site of the Rail Transport Museum, Bassendean, side and front view.

P15665146 viewsASG class Garratt articulated steam locomotive, front on view, not the traversing jack on the footplate, M class 3720 coal box wagon in the background

T04462146 viewsV Class 1201 steam locomotive in the Avon Valley, approaching Windmill Hill Cutting, with an Avon bound goods train.

T04481146 viewsPM class 717 steam locomotive at the East Perth locomotive shed.

T04540146 viewsAnother view of part of the train of sawn timber from the cab of a G class locomotive. See T4539.

T04564146 viewsDD class 597 steam locomotive hauling a football special at West Leederville enroute to Perth.

T04567146 viewsDD class 597 steam locomotive with a load of empty wagons at Bassendean. See T4565.

P10505146 viewsE class steam loco, side view, fully lined out in original condition, builders (Makers) photo, c1902-03

P10532146 viewsF class 41 diesel locomotive and a sister locomotive hauling the 'Leonora Rattler' on the KL line.

P10535146 viewsR class 1901 diesel locomotive hauling a bauxite train between Mundijong and Jarrahdale. Good front view of locomotive.

P10543146 viewsW class 917 narrow gauge steam locomotive with a goods train. ALT class 88 Track Recorder Car is attached behind the locomotive. Front and side view of locomotive.