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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P07564388 viewsG class 32, 2-6-0 steam locomotive, in original condition,front and side view, elevated coal stage, water tower and shed in the background, workers standing in front of the loco, Kalgoorlie, EGR line, c1893-94. Same as P02822 & P07414

T04001388 viewsCS class 270 "Black Butte", R class bogie open wagon with passengers on board, ARHS tour train, side and front view.

P00279387 viewsWF class standard gauge flat wagons, (later reclassified to WFDY),overhead gantry crane, wagons being loaded

P00288387 views"Outwards" freight shed, Kewdale Yard, elevated overall view inside the shed

P00382387 viewsXB class 1027 "MARANGAL", side and end view

P00484387 viewsM class 1851, Swan brewery, Canning Vale, the first consignment of beer leaving the new premise.

P05210387 viewsTroops posing for a group photo, footbridge, Chidlow station, ER line

P05437387 viewsXC class 21064 bauxite hopper, end and side view

P05814387 viewsV class 1220, Collie, being prepared for the ARHS "Farewell to Steam" tour.

P06205387 viewsL class, Spencers Brook yard, ER line,

P06781387 viewsGER class, grain elevator, wheat bin, Cunderdin, EGR line, Bulk superphosphate experiment (?), unloading wagon using a "Clarke Shovel"

P09022387 viewsWSW class 30631 standard gauge crew living van, Forrestfield Yard, end and side view.

P00507386 viewsKalgoorlie Station staff, group photo, names of the staff on the rear of the print.

P00536386 viewsGroup photo of WAGR officials in front of a F class loco, Geraldton for the Sunshine Festival, Commissioner of Railways, Mr. C. G. C. Wayne second from the right on the loco footplate.

P00894386 viewsXA class 1405 "WARIENGA", Avon Valley line, ARHS tour train with "Great Southern Railway" on the headboard

P06412386 viewsStation buildings, Cue, NR line, view from track side

P06807386 viewsW class 951 without tender, stowed at Midland Workshops, Tender from S class 549 "Greenmount "on flat wagon behind string of boiler on flat wagons behind. W class being cannibalised

P02293386 viewsXA class 1401 "PEDONG" in private ownership, with Hotham Valley Railway carriages, ready to run the Pinjarra-Armadale segment of a HVR Dwellingup tour.