Tuesday, June 7, 2011

The Great Zig Zag Railway


One of the engineering wonders of Australia, this was designed to get the trains over the Blue Mountains that lie west of Sydney. Opened in 1869 and closed in 1910 when the rail traffic became too heavy and tunnels were built. It now is a narrow-gauge heritage railway which runs between 3 stations.

6 comments:

  1. I planned to take my sister there a couple of weeks ago but they were burning off the brush around that time and then there was a week of rain. Next year.

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  2. I have a Bucket-List, to which I must add this.

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  3. On my to do list as well.
    Ann. (for some reason I can't log in with my google account, keeps taking me back to the login screen)

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  4. Marvellous. I want to see this myself too.

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  5. Well, worth the trip, they have regular trips most days which is enough, the 'Thomas' weekends are frantic!

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  6. It is certainly a great engineering feat. I must visit there again.

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