Lithgow Zig Zag
(This article is about The Great Zig Zag railway line. For the tourist attraction and railway line, see Zig Zag Railway.) The Lithgow Zig Zag was a zig zag railway built near Lithgow on the Great Western Railway of New South Wales in Australia which operated between 1870 and 1910, to overcome an otherwise insurmountable climb up the western side of the Blue Mountains. The Lithgow Zig Zag is listed on the NSW State Heritage Register. It is now used by the Zig Zag Railway, a narrow gauge tourist railway.
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Lithgow Zig Zag
(This article is about The Great Zig Zag railway line. For the tourist attraction and railway line, see Zig Zag Railway.) The Lithgow Zig Zag was a zig zag railway built near Lithgow on the Great Western Railway of New South Wales in Australia which operated between 1870 and 1910, to overcome an otherwise insurmountable climb up the western side of the Blue Mountains. The Lithgow Zig Zag is listed on the NSW State Heritage Register. It is now used by the Zig Zag Railway, a narrow gauge tourist railway.
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builtby
Patrick Higgins
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Top, middle, and bottom parts of the Zig Zag railway
closed
1910-10-16
Latitude
-3.3475882e+1
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Western Blue Mountains, New South Wales
Longitude
1.50197875e+2
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The Great Zig Zag
operator
Zig Zag Railway Cooperative as Zig Zag Railway
originalopen
1869-10-18
other name
Lithgow Zig Zag
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New South Wales
stations
Clarence, Mt Sinai Halt, No1 Viaduct, Top Points, Cockerton, Bottom Points
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Lithgow Zig Zag
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