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    The Ten Tunnels Deviation is a heritage-listed 9.2-kilometre (5.7 mi) section of the Main Western Line between Newnes Junction and Zig Zag stations in...
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    Ten Tunnels Deviation, a double tracked route with a ruling grade of 1:42 as far as the start of the ten tunnels and 1 in 90 through the ten tunnels....
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  • the Ten Tunnels Deviation works, the town population had flourished to over 5,000 residents, the majority being the navvies employed on the deviation works...
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    2 mi (3.2 km) long tunnel. This was said to provide little gain for the cost proposed. In 1908, work began on the Ten Tunnels Deviation, a double-tracked...
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    Western railway: Eskbank railway station Main Western railway: Ten Tunnels Deviation Railway Parade: Lithgow railway station Top Points Zig Zag railway:...
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    built in April 1878 and closed in 1910 due to the opening of the Ten Tunnels Deviation which bypassed the original site of the station. The station was...
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  • to use the line. After the construction of the Ten Tunnels Deviation, it was abandoned. The deviation started construction around July 1896 due to a sudden...
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  • to the Clarence Tunnel. With the opening of Dargan's Deviation, it was rebuilt to its second location. When the Ten Tunnels Deviation was completed in...
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    of tunnels in Australia which includes any road, railway, waterway or other form of tunnel, anywhere in the country. Australia portal List of tunnels by...
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    page for railway, road and waterway tunnels, including hydroelectric intakes and tailraces and gun battery tunnels. It includes artificial chambers but...
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    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. In the 1950s,...
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    Springwood, Katoomba, and Lithgow, including the heritage-listed Ten Tunnels Deviation. The new trains would also be too long for the platforms at Linden...
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    north side of the Wolgan River, opposite the works. It was intended to tunnel through the mountain to meet up with some earlier workings in the Capertee...
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    rail underbridges Rydal railway station Tarana railway station Ten Tunnels Deviation Wallerawang railway station National parks Blue Mountains Gardens...
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  • rail underbridges Rydal railway station Tarana railway station Ten Tunnels Deviation Wallerawang railway station National parks Blue Mountains Gardens...
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    rail underbridges Rydal railway station Tarana railway station Ten Tunnels Deviation Wallerawang railway station National parks Blue Mountains Gardens...
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    rail underbridges Rydal railway station Tarana railway station Ten Tunnels Deviation Wallerawang railway station National parks Blue Mountains Gardens...
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  • including the Sydney suburbs, Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge, Ten Tunnels Deviation, Polona signal box Blayney station and the Picton-Mittagong loop...
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  • (old tunnel and siding near correctional centre), Glenbrook Tunnel, Clarence Tunnel (that is now part of the Lithgow Zig Zag) and Picton tunnel in Sydney's...
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    Station archaeological site The Old Bathurst Road: Cox's Road and Early Deviations - Hartley, Clarence Hilly Range and Mount Blaxland Precinct River Lett...
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  • rail underbridges Rydal railway station Tarana railway station Ten Tunnels Deviation Wallerawang railway station National parks Blue Mountains Gardens...
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    (13.49 km) Tawa Flat deviation is a double-track section of the Kapiti Line just north of Wellington, New Zealand, with two tunnels; the southernmost section...
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    rail underbridges Rydal railway station Tarana railway station Ten Tunnels Deviation Wallerawang railway station National parks Blue Mountains Gardens...
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    Main Western Railway — which runs from Sydney to Lithgow and beyond—and ten kilometres from the nearest railway station at Bell. The valley is an historic...
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    were connected by a bridle track between the two valleys. The tunnel, known as 'Lang's Tunnel'—begun first in the 1890s—lay west of the later oil shale mine;...
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    the Antuco, in Sydney, Australia. He worked for a time on the Ten Tunnels Deviation (which bypassed the Great Zig Zag railway) and later as a waiter...
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    rail underbridges Rydal railway station Tarana railway station Ten Tunnels Deviation Wallerawang railway station National parks Blue Mountains Gardens...
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  • rail underbridges Rydal railway station Tarana railway station Ten Tunnels Deviation Wallerawang railway station National parks Blue Mountains Gardens...
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    rail underbridges Rydal railway station Tarana railway station Ten Tunnels Deviation Wallerawang railway station National parks Blue Mountains Gardens...
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    1913 double-track deviation (1910–13) starting at Emu Plains, the Ten Tunnels Deviation of the Lithgow Zig Zag (1897–1910), and the section at Solitary...
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