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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P01441259 viewsFour QU class wagons including QU class 25037 and QU class 25046 loaded with semi trailers, Midland

P01594259 viewsADU class carriage, interior view of the seating.

P01748259 viewsPerth station, east end, view looking west, ER line, showing platforms, covered pedestrian bridge, advertising boards, diesel railcar set.

P02368259 viewsMillars loco "Samson No.2", Wellington Mills, the late S. Moss, ex manager of the Yarloop Workshops in the cab, front and side view.

P02437259 views2 of 3 views of Commonwealth Railways (CR) GM class 13, Commonwealth Railways (CR) GM class 24, Bayswater, on "The Indian Pacific" interstate passenger train

P02629259 viewsSignals, semaphore, Subiaco

P02720259 viewsADE class 451 "Governor Bedford" diesel electric railcar, narrow hazard stripes on the front, side and front view, N class 203 4-4-4T steam locomotive, front view, Perth, ER line.

P02927259 viewsTrack bed showing sleeper indentations after track being lifted, end view of the goods shed, station building, passenger platform, Coolgardie, EGR line, c1970.

P02961259 viewsV class 1213 steam locomotive, side and front view.

P03042259 viewsC class 271, ZA class brakevan, Walkaway, W line, front and side view, built as 4-6-0, rebulit as 4-6-2, c1940

P03043259 viewsL class 240, renumbered to L class 475 in 1949, elevated coal stage, Kalgoorlie, EGR line, side view, Goggs No. 65, same as P9460 c1940

P03068259 viewsPR class 139 "Avon" steam locomotive, renumbered to 522 in 1946, cut off from the "Westland", side and front view, Perth, ER line.

P03246259 viewsDort inspection car, station building, track gang, nameboard, passenger platform, Northampton, GA line.

P03482259 viewsXA class 1414 "YINDI" with tour train crossing the standard gauge on the Meenaar flyover, EGR line, ARHS tour train to Cunderdin.

P03610259 viewsMRWA B class 6 steam locomotives, side and rear view.

P03699259 viewsK class steam loco, on goods train, departing Fremantle, FA line, c1955, first revenue earning train to Coogee South

P04135259 viewsL class 270 on the "Indian Pacific", light and dark blue with yellow stripe, Midland

P04324259 viewsF class 43 diesel locomotive in green with red and yellow stripe livery, front and side view, on goods train passing through Perth station, ER line.