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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T02409304 viewsX class, goods train, includes five Commonwealth Railways (CR) standard gauge GL class and VE class bogie open wagons which had been constructed at the Commonwealth Engineering (Comeng) plant in Bassendean being carried upon QU class flat wagons

T03198304 viewsASG class Garratt loco, Midland graveyard, awaiting scrapping

T04295304 viewsF class 46 in MRWA livery but with "WAGR" in circle on the nose, XB class 1017 "EWENYOON", RA class 1906, diesel depot, Midland Junction

P02454304 viewsStation building, nameboard, Bellevue, ER line, elevated view looking west

P04376304 viewsStation building, trackside view of York station building in unpainted bare stone, AD class carriage and clerestory roofed brakevan at the platform, old style water column, points indicator, cheese knob, York, GSR line.

P17913304 views2 of 4 WMC class wagons, WMC class 27, end and side view from elevated position

P01807304 viewsYard with rolling stock, Collie, BN line, elevated view along the yard looking towards Brunswick

P02003304 views1 of 14. Steam loco "Nampup", later re-named G Class 48 (second), side view, Denmark, on an embankment, tender with hungry boards, hauling ballast hoppers on the construction of the Demark-Nornalup railway, D line.

P00099303 views62 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.

P00135303 views98 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.