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Bridge Attractions In Blue Mountains

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The Blue Mountains are a mountainous region and a mountain range located in New South Wales, Australia. The region borders on Sydney's metropolitan area, its foothills starting about 50 kilometres west of centre of the state capital. The public's understanding of the extent of the Blue Mountains is varied, as it forms only part of an extensive mountainous area associated with the Great Dividing Range. Officially the Blue Mountains region is bounded by the Nepean and Hawkesbury rivers in the east, the Coxs River and Lake Burragorang to the west and south, and the Wolgan and Colo rivers to the north. Geologically, it is situated in the central parts of t...
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Bridge Attractions In Blue Mountains

  • 1. Lennox Bridge Blaxland
    The Lennox Bridge, Glenbrook is a heritage-listed road bridge at Mitchells Pass, Glenbrook, City of Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by David Lennox and built from 1832 to 1833 by James Randall and other convicts. It is also known as Lennox Bridge or The Horseshoe Bridge. The property is owned by Blue Mountains City Council. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. The stone arch bridge is a single arch of 6 metres span and 9 metres above water level, with a road width of 9 metres .
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  • 2. Lapstone Zig Zag Glenbrook
    The Lapstone Zig Zag was a zig zag railway built near Lapstone on the Main Western line of New South Wales in Australia between 1863 and 1865, to overcome an otherwise insurmountable climb up the eastern side of the Blue Mountains. The ruling grade was already very steep at 1 in 33 . Another of the early plans had been to build the whole line across the Blue Mountains on a completely different route through the Grose Valley with a 3-kilometre-long tunnel, but this was beyond the resources of the colony of New South Wales at the time. The track included the Knapsack Viaduct and a now abandoned station called Lucasville which was built for the Minister for Mines, John Lucas who had a holiday home nearby, the station opened in 1877.
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