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:

Most viewed

P07015315 views4 of 7 photos of the construction of the Cue - Big Bell railway, NR line, shows newly laid track in shallow cutting awaiting spiking

P12113315 viewsY class 1105, Mundijong Junction accident. SWR line.

T00601315 viewsMRWA C class 18

T01000315 viewsPlasser Track Tamping vehicle, view of tamping gear

T03403315 viewsL class 275, L class 269, Middle Swan, Avon valley line, freight train, W class 933 and W class 934 In the train on flat wagons

P13299315 viewsXA class 1406 "UNGARINYIN", XA class "NILIGARA" double heading on the "Albany Progress", Perth Station, view from the Barrack street Bridge looking along the train.

P01414315 views9 of 16 images of the pair of trestle bridges over the Canning River at Gosnells, SWR line, view along the side of the bridge from the north

P01614315 viewsH class loco, WSH class ballast hoppers, at Wooroloo Bridge on the Avon Valley line, during construction. same as P0872

P02248315 viewsMillars loco "J H Smith", side and front view, crew posing on the loco side tank and buffer beam

P02409315 views2 of 2. Descending trams on incline on Whittakers timber line. Showing workman riding on empty wagon. c1927.

P02730315 viewsMSA class 468 Garratt articulated steam locomotive, side and rear view, derailed, Kalgoorlie, EGR line.

P02810315 viewsT class 171, side view.

P02887315 viewsMRWA G class 50 diesel locomotive about too leave Pinjarra with an empty stock movement to Forrestfield with ARHS vintage carriages ARA class 351, AYS class 461, AV class 425, ZJA class 431, AM class 313, AQZ class 423, AQM class 292, ARA class 356, Hotham Valley ARM class 347, AQZ class 424, AZ class 436 and 439, AQL class 290, AZ class 434 and 435, AQZ class 420, AV class 426 and ZJ class 367, front and side view.

P03216315 viewsP class steam locomotive on a goods train, side and front view, signals, Leighton, ER line, c1930s.

P03405315 viewsHawker Siddeley Building Supply's CS class 439 "Banksia" steam locomotive side and front view, Banksiadale.

P03409315 viewsW class 908 steam locomotive and Australind set on ARHS South West Flyer tour, taking on water, front and side view, Pinjarra, SWR line.

P10338315 viewsA class 1506 diesel locomotive in green with red and yellow stripe livery, narrow gauge grain train approaching Bayswater. Sections of old Belmont line in foreground.