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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P00648431 viewsCommonwealth Railways (CR) G class, Kalgoorlie, TAR line, departing with the first east bound train for Port Augusta

P07401431 viewsO class 86, oil headlight and bar cowcatcher, side and front view, same as P5499.

P00145429 viewsSide tank from an I class single "Fairlie" locomotive mounted on the loco's underframe

P00410429 viewsGanger's tricycle with an internal combustion engine, front view

P00414429 viewsMotorised ganger's quadricycle (ganger's trolley), end and side view.

P00955429 viewsStation platform, new Midland station, MRWA workshops in background yet to be demolished.

P05690429 viewsMRWA G class 394 water tank wagon, Mingenew, MR line, side view

P07605429 viewsBobtail tender from P class 457 being moved by the overhead crane, Fitting Shop, Block 3, Midland Workshops

P07929429 viewsFDM class 14118, louvered van for transporting meat, side and end view

P04113429 viewsXA class 1403 "WANBIRI", XA class 1405 "WARIENGA" in the green with red stripe livery. Last train from Meekatharra, NR line, front view with station staff

P00358428 viewsADX class 670 in the Nanking blue and light grey livery with a stainless steel cowcatcher, missing gangways, trial run to Jumperkine,Avon Valley line, front and side view. (Ref: RIM August 1966)

P00599428 viewsN class 87, front and side view

P00788428 viewsStation buildings, signal box, Chidlow, ER line

P09223428 viewsQUA class 25067 bogie flat wagon, Katanning, GSR line, end and side view

T03587428 viewsQCA class 23585 with the body of Commonwealth Railways (CR) NVB class 777 van body on deck, Maylands,

P05874427 views1 of 4 photos of derailment at Goomalling, AB class 1536, P class 2002 "Shire of Moora", off rails, front view, EM line

P07921427 viewsWAL class 951 Standard Gauge Commissioner's Inspection Car", side and end view

P09601427 viewsW class and S class on empties No 7 shunter for Western No 2 screens between Collie Burn and Collie Cardiff. BN line.

P12001427 views1 of 12 official portraits of the Chief Mechanical Engineers of the WAGR and Westrail, (ref: "A History of W.A.G.R... Steam Locomotives" by A. Gunzburg, page 150), Mr E. S. Hume, 1903-1919.