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It was opened by the not-for-profit Zig Zag Railway Co-op as an unpaid volunteer-staffed heritage railway in October 1975, using the alignment of the Lithgow Zig Zag line that formed part of the Main Western line between 1869 and 1910. The line climbs the western flank of the Blue Mountains, using railway zig zags to gain height.
The Lapstone Zig Zag [1] was a zig zag railway built between Emu Plains and Blaxland stations on the Main Western Line of New South Wales in Australia.Constructed between 1863 and 1865 to overcome an otherwise insurmountable climb up the eastern side of the Blue Mountains, [2] [3] the zig zag and associated Knapsack Viaduct, a sandstone arch viaduct, were designed by John Whitton, Engineer-in ...
Bottom Points is a railway station on the Zig Zag Railway (heritage railway) in the Blue Mountains area of 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.
The Lithgow Zig Zag is a heritage-listed former zig zag railway line built near Lithgow on the Great Western Line of New South Wales in Australia. The zig zag line operated between 1869 and 1910, to overcome an otherwise insurmountable climb and descent on the western side of the Blue Mountains .
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.
Zig Zag has two side platforms, sized at 7 m each. [5] It is serviced by NSW TrainLink Blue Mountains Line services travelling from Sydney Central to Lithgow.It is a request stop with passengers required to notify the guard if they wish to alight and signal the driver if they want to board.
The viaduct was later widened to carry the old Great Western Highway when the deviation around the Lapstone Zig Zag was built. The zig zag is now part of a walking trail on the old railway/highway alignment, including a memorial to John Whitton, the engineer in charge of the construction of the Blue Mountains line and many other early railways. [5]
Top Points is a railway station on the Zig Zag Railway (heritage railway) in the Blue Mountains area of New South Wales. It is situated at the reversal point of the Middle and Top Roads of the Lithgow Zig Zag. When the Zig Zag Railway reopened in October 1975, Top Points was a terminal station on the line.