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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P08463176 viewsDalwallinu, station building, view from road side, EM line.

P08673176 viewsDumbleyung, station building ("Traffic Office"), out of shed with ramp, goods shed in background, nameboard, view from road side, WLG line.

P08683176 viewsKarlgarin, out of shed, nameboard, view from rail side, LH line.

P08690176 viewsG class type loco, wood rails around tender, side and front view, workers posing in front of loco

P08707176 viewsStation building, Geraldton, NR line, streetside view, shows period car in the view

P08727176 views1 of 4 views of the abandoned wagons at Carnarvon

P08729176 views3 of 4 views of the abandoned wagons at Carnarvon

P08768176 viewsStation building, Narembeen, NKM line, end and trackside view

P08869176 views5 of 15 views of the aftermath of the washaway at Coondle, CM line on the 3rd of March 1934, debris piled up on the track

P08875176 views11 of 15 views of the aftermath of the washaway at Coondle, CM line on the 3rd of March 1934, view shows suited gentlemen next to an unidentified structure displaced by the flood

P08877176 views13 of 15 views of the aftermath of the washaway at Coondle, CM line on the 3rd of March 1934, view of the deck of the loading platform with structure exposed due to the surface material being washed away.

P09151176 viewsFD class 14280 louvered van, end and side view

P09237176 viewsRail Transport Museum, Bassendean, view from the platform along the front of the rows of locos

P09258176 viewsTA class 1808, Katanning, GSR line, front and side view, shunting.

P09265176 viewsVDL class 23035, converted from a VD class bogie louvered van, side view.

P09282176 views4 of 5 internal views of the ground floor of the Westrail Centre, East Perth, elevated overall view of the ground floor

P09308176 viewsVW class 5129, HC class 21416, VW class workman's carriage coupled together, side and end view

P09319176 views1 of 5 views of the Hotham Valley Tourist Railway's "Riverland" carriages at Fremantle Wharf having been unloaded after arrival from South Africa, end of carriage AHE 309.