RailWA is a webpage of Railway
Photographs taken over the last 30+ years, with an emphasis on our own state of Western Australia.
The
Railscene in W.A. has changed considerably in the last two decades. The days of the Metropolitan- Vickers X class diesels
hauling rake's of 4 wheeled wagons, have been replaced with diesels with touch screen technology hauling wagons, which singularly
can hold the capacity of 5 or 6, 4 wheeled wagons.
Western Australia's rail system is a number of systems.
In the North-west Hammersley Iron, Cliffs Robe River, Mount Newman
Mining and Goldsworthy Mining are now part of either
the BHP Billiton rail network or that of Rio Tinto. FMG (Fortescue Mining Group) have also built their own line. Whilst
in the South the network used to be dominated by the State owned Westrail. Today operating over the former Westrail
system are the following companies:
QR National (QRN) which was formerly the Australian Railroad Group
(ARG)
Pacific National (PN)
SCT Rail (Specialised Container Transport)
Watco Rail operating trains on behalf of CBH.
All this makes a fairly diverse rail scene. With Company names and colour schemes changing over the time since we first started this website we will update the pages to reflect those changes
as time permits.
These
pages have been put together by the father and son's combination of Phil, David, Daniel, Christopher &
Joshua Melling using mainly our own photos (with some from friend Joe Moir). We hope you like it.
A special thanks to the various people in the railway industry who over
the years have provided information, access etc. to allow us to pursue our hobby.
Fortescue Metals Group's 006/
007 are seen heading to the Herb Elliott Port unloading point near Port Hedland on 16 July 2009.
V1213 is seen hauling a freight train to Avon Yard on its mainline trial on 27 May 1992 through
Windmill Cutting near Toodyay.
The shape of things to come in Geraldton and the Mid West with new QR National
ACN 4149 standing on the lead of new AOKF wagons for Karara Mining Limited. seen at Narngulu on 24 February 2012.
B1609 hauls a short shunt train onto the Victoria quay at
Fremantle Port on 31 May 1979.
GM5/ GM21 are seen between Parkeston and Golden Ridge on the trans
australian Railway with the Indian Pacific on 17 January 1981.
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