The Great Lithgow Zig-Zag Railway, Australia.

This railway in the Blue Mountains here in New South Wales, Australia is considered a master-piece of Victorian Engineering. Built between 1866 and 1869, as part of the Western main line fron Sydney to Bathurst. This line forms a large letter "Z" in the side of the mountain. A necessary way of gaining enough height to go over these mountains, as tunneling was expensive and still in the early stages of development. Discover why this line was built and why it lay silent for almost 60 years. To learn more about this line, or to purchase this double DVD, please visit our web-site at www.sprucestudios.com

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Film & Animation

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• Steam
• Rail
• Australia
• BobSymes
• SpruceStudios
• Zig-Zag
• New
• South
• Wales

[karlkkg92]

I love the zig zag! I've been on there more than 10 times! I've got a farm out past lithgow... And yeah it's a great country area.

[EARLOFEXETER]

Glad you loiked the DVd, we enjoyed filming their, as everyone was so helpful

[trainguyrocks]

love it

[my90tp]

I went to the 100 year anniversary of Zig Zag closing Last year (1910 - 2010) due to the 10 tunnel Deviation main twin line Loved it so Much on the steam trains went back the following weekend and road the QR Diesel rail cars and did all the tour of the work shop, Truley Amazing There is No Need for Heaven because in the Zig Zag workshop your already there

[ocossa]

awesome footage, thank you for sharing

[trainfart]

Wunderful video of a great line!

[Modeltrainguy]

Cool! 5 Stars!

[outen12345]

Thanks for sharing that piece of engineering