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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P08979335 viewsQUW class 25007-B wagon adapted to transport wool bales, side and end view, loaded with bales.

P12108335 viewsY class 1105, bogie detail, working on re-railing junction track, Mundijong Junction accident. SWR line.

P01753335 viewsIntricate trackwork, east of Bellevue, view looking east, ER line.

P02614335 viewsA class 1510 hauling a rake of Hotham Valley Railway ex South African carriages through Forrestfield Yard for the first run of these carriages through the Avon Valley

P03408335 viewsXB class 1008 "WARRANGOO" double heading with XA class 1410 "TENMA" diesel locomotives hauling "The Midlander", side and front view, signals, tracks, signal rodding, near Midland, ER line.

P00514334 viewsLoco "Ballaarat", Busselton side view, on display.

P00676334 viewsPR class 531 "BRUNSWICK", fitted with a PM class boiler, first of the P class converted to PR class, renumbered from PR class 453 on 1st March, 1946, front and side view, same as P00018, P03048, P03248

P00863334 viewsStation building, Gingin, trackside view, undergoing restoration

P04526334 viewsMillars loco "Jubilee" wrecked at Mornington Mills disaster, Wokalup.

P04849334 viewsJetty, Rockingham, Rockingham Jarrahdale Railway, ship is the SS Karrakatta, loading timber

P06018334 viewsL class 483, Mullewa, NR line, the last L class to leave the North, ex Cue, enroute south, WAGR employees in front of loco

P06965334 viewsStation buildings with staff, Yalgoo, NR line, trackside view, notation on back "Yalgoo where F. T. Liston was conductor to Meekatharra & Wiluna"

P07927334 viewsVI class 7979, ex AP class 86, side and end view

P11970334 viewsV class 1206, Mundijong Junction accident. SWR line.

T04235334 viewsHamersley Iron Comeng rebuild M636R class 4047, rebuilt from Alco M636 class of the same number with special livery for the Australian Bicentennial of 1988, Dampier, 7 Mile workshops, internal view

P12804334 viewsStation, goods shed, yard Boyup Brook, DK line

P12810334 viewsShunting tractor, ST2, station, Bridgetown, PP line

P02211334 viewsBunnings loco No.53, Manjimup, elevated front and side view.

P02410334 views1 of 2. V class 1219 steam locomotive, side and front view, approaching turntable, louvered van and brakevan in the background, Bunbury, SWR.