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Scenic World is a family-owned tourist attraction located in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, about 100 kilometres west of Sydney. Scenic World is home to four attractions, the Scenic Railway , the Scenic Skyway , the Scenic Cableway and Scenic Walkway , a 2.4-km elevated boardwalk through ancient rainforest.
This site is home to the steepest funicular railway in the world, the Katoomba Scenic Railway, which was originally built to facilitate coal and oil shale mining in the Jamison Valley. [26] Scenic World also offers the Scenic Skyway cable car, which travels over an arm of the Jamison Valley and offers views of Katoomba Falls and Orphan Rock.
The Katoomba Falls is a segmented waterfall that is located close to Echo Point near Katoomba on the Kedumba River descending into the Jamison Valley located within the Blue Mountains National Park in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales, Australia. The Scenic World Skyway travels across the gorge and provides views of the falls.
A number of scenic railways, such as this one at Scenic World, Katoomba, climb various shorter routes along the range. The engineers of early rail passages across the Great Dividing Range needed to find low sections of the range to cross, as well as suitable, "low" gradient paths up the mountains on either side. Rail passages include:
The incline was designed by Norman Selfe who would also design what is now the Katoomba Scenic Railway. [4] Hartley Vale Station was created on the Main Western Line, but closed in 1975 and no longer exists. [5] About 40 feet below the shale seam was a seam of coal, discovered around 1874, which could be used as fuel to support retorts and a ...
Katoomba Scenic World, Blue Mountains, New South Wales. [74] Cobar Miner in 2002: A larger than life bronze sculpture in Cobar, New South Wales; a tribute to 130 miners killed whilst working in the mines. [75] Sports Figures in 2001: A series of white sports figures for the Champions sports area in Mount Pritchard, Liverpool, New South Wales. [76]
: Scientists have recently discovered a new primate species in Myanmar’s central forest. However, the Popa langur, named after nearby Mount Popa, is tragically already on the verge of extinction.
Jenolan Caves, a series of limestone caves south west of Katoomba. The Katoomba Scenic Railway is an incline railway now used for tourism, and originally part of the Katoomba mining tramways constructed between 1878 and 1900. The incline railway descends 415 m (453.85 yd) through sandstone cliffs, via a rock tunnel with a maximum gradient of 52 ...