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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P00793273 viewsMobile container on flat wagon, front and side view. Same as P1923

P04523273 viewsMillars loco" Jubilee" at Wokalup, rear view

P04718273 viewsLoco "Ballaarat" at Lockeville

P05219273 views"Kalgoorlie Express", Kalgoorlie Station, 1st class section

P05423273 viewsZ class 452-U brakevan, side view

P05924273 viewsPlatform, Bunbury Station

P06063273 viewsStation yard, Katanning, GSR line, looking south

P06232273 viewsSEC electric loco No.1, East Perth, side and front view

P06430273 viewsPR class 529 "Gascoyne", loco shed, water column, Katanning, GSR line, side view of loco

P06890273 viewsX class 1023 "KARIERA" hauling a G class steam loco, Wollaston, Bunbury, SWR line, goods train

P07193273 viewsWW class grain hoppers, Kwinana, elevated view along train, First train out of Kwinana with a two man crew without a brakevan. (ref Railways Institute Magazine, Vol 81, September 1984, page 2), (see also: "Network". Vol 22, No. 2, page 9)

P07666273 viewsN class, M class Garratt loco, on Mundaring Weir Picnic train

P07809273 viewsPWD loco "Kimberley", hauling open sided passenger carriages Broome, side and end view

P07881273 viewsI of 4 photos of the Royal Train taking Prince Charles from Perth to Northam, Prospector railcar with royal crest on front, front view of car, (Ref: "Westrail" Vol 1, No.3 April 1979), see also P0894

P08051273 viewsFremantle Railway Bridge collapse which occurred on the afternoon of the 22nd of July, 1926, view along the side of the bridge showing the trusses collapsed into the river, See also P07086, P21471, ER line.