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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P13407232 views51 of 67 views taken from an album of photos of the Midland Workshops c1905. Foundry, - Wheel press, South Elevation of Foundry.

P13608232 viewsPMR class 720, W class 907, Midland Workshops, being prepared for transportation to South Australia

P13691232 views1 of 6 images of the mill town of Jarnadup, renamed Jardee in 1925, Mrs Dare's house, side and front view

P14100232 viewsGreat Eastern Highway, view looking east, Helena Vale branch formation/Standard Gauge earthworks and Eastern Railway, ER line.

P01561232 viewsProspector railcars, Northam, official ceremony for the introduction to service, dignitaries on dais in front of a car

P01590232 viewsConfectionary dispensing machine installed in an ADU class carriage

P01754232 viewsB class 180, 4-6-0T, side view from an elevated position.

P02299232 viewsV class 1209, Brunswick Junction yard, head on view.

P02478232 viewsAI class 432 rail motor coach, side view, as new

P02568232 views6 of 8, Derailment showing MA class 1862 diesel locomotive on its side, front view, Forrestfield marshalling yard.

P02640232 viewsW Class 908 emitting steam and smoke heading "Australind" carriages in green and cream livery, unknown location

P02652232 viewsV class 1213 steam locomotive, side and front view, East Perth, ER line.

P02668232 viewsK class 190 steam locomotive goods train at Mount Lawley, front view, raised wooden platform, ER line.

P02688232 viewsO class 225 steam locomotive shunting in the yard at Bunbury, front and side view, twin water towers with 25,000 cast iron tanks in the background, SWR line.

P02855232 viewsCS class 440 "Jarrah" steam locomotive, side and front view, Banksiadale.

P02891232 viewsAI class 432 petrol coach, side view, PM line, c1935.

P02921232 viewsDW class 652, converted from AH class 29 on 17.1.1925, a 6 wheel "Cleminson" saloon carriage, Lakewood, was used as a school classroom , side view.

P02953232 viewsSSM G class 57 steam locomotive, hauling a rake of loaded open wagons and brakevan crossing a trestle bridge, crew on the footplate, vertical steam boiler at a log landing, horse team, log bridge, whim, in the bush at Pemberton.