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Photographs - New South Wales, circa 1885

Title Zig Zag
Reference Y3086J/70
Covering Dates circa 1885
Extent and Medium Fair condition, fading in from edges.
Content and context

190 x 140 mm. A view of the Lithgow zigzag, a spectacular piece of railway engineering by John Whitton, on the descent from the Blue Mountains. The viaducts, opened in 1869 and cut through heavy rock, allowed the railway to descend on a gradient of 1 in 42 by three parallel sweeps across the face of the ravine. The zigzags were replaced by tunnels in 1910.

Further information

For more on the Zig Zag see Y3086C/28 and Y3086E/51.

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Australia
Blue Mountains
New South Wales
Oceania
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