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There is also 'Zig Zag Track' walk, which winds its way through native bush from the village centre to Titirangi Beach. Exhibition Drive, a well-formed track very popular with walkers, joggers and cyclists, is located 1.5 km (0.93 mi) from the village centre.
The deviation comprises ten tunnels of varying length from 70 to 825 metres (77 to 902 yd) that carry the double-track 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge Main Western line between Newnes Junction and Lithgow Zig Zag stations. The work also included the excavation of the deepest cutting of 61 metres (200 ft) on the New South Wales ...
It is situated at the reversal point of the Lower and Middle Roads of the Lithgow Zig Zag. When the Zig Zag Railway reopened in October 1975, Bottom Points was a terminal station on the line. It has a water crane at one end to replenish locomotives. The signal box was built in 1910 when the Ten Tunnels line opened, and was later relocated. [1 ...
Zig zags suffer from a number of limitations: The length of trains is limited to what will fit on the shortest stub track in the zig zag. For this reason, the Lithgow Zig Zag's stubs were extended at great expense in 1908. [5] Even then, delays were such that the zig zag had eventually to be bypassed by a new route, opened two years later.
The line originally ascended the eastern and descended the western sides of the Blue Mountains via a series of zig-zag track sections. The eastern zig zag was by passed by a tunnel in 1892 and the western zig zag (currently a tourist railway) was bypassed in 1910 with the Ten Tunnels Deviation.
Steele, Ken.(1993) Zig Zag to Kalamunda : the story of the Upper Darling Range Railway Lesmurdie, W.A.: Drillmark Publications Division. ISBN 0-646-16323-X Watson, Lindsay (1995) The Railway History of Midland Junction : Commemorating The Centenary of Midland Junction, 1895–1995 Swan View, W.A : L & S Drafting in association with the Shire of ...
PeruRail's routes are divided into two sections. The line between Cusco and Machu Picchu - Ferrocarril Santa Ana - is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge line, which boasts a series of five switchbacks called locally 'El Zig-Zag', which enable the train to climb up the steep incline out of Cusco, before it can begin its descent to the Sacred Valley of the Incas and then continue down to Machu Picchu.
The Tren a las Nubes (English: Train to the Clouds) is a tourist train service in Salta Province, Argentina.The service runs along the eastern part of the Salta–Antofagasta railway line of the Belgrano Railway (also known as the "C-14" line) that connects the Argentine Northwest with the border in the Andes mountain range, over 4,220 metres (13,850 ft) above mean sea level, [5] the fifth ...