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Arthur Streeton
Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton (8 April 1867 – 1 September 1943) was an Australian landscape painter and leading member of the Heidelberg School, also known as Australian Impressionism.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Australian Railway History
Australian Railway History is a monthly magazine covering railway history in Australia published by the New South Wales Division of the Australian Railway Historical Society on behalf of its seven state and territory Divisions.
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Bell miner
The bell miner (Manorina melanophrys), commonly known as the bellbird, is a colonial honeyeater endemic to southeastern Australia.
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Bird vocalization
Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs.
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Blaxland, New South Wales
Blaxland is a town in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia.
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Blue Mountains (New South Wales)
The Blue Mountains are a mountainous region and a mountain range located in New South Wales, Australia.
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Double-track railway
A double-track railway usually involves running one track in each direction, compared to a single-track railway where trains in both directions share the same track.
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Emu Plains, New South Wales
Emu Plains is a suburb of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
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Glenbrook Deviation 1892
The first Glenbrook deviation was the section of track from the first Knapsack Viaduct to Old Glenbrook Station in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales.
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Glenbrook railway station
Glenbrook railway station is located on the Main Western line in New South Wales, Australia.
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Glenbrook Tunnel
The Glenbrook Tunnel (1892) is a single-gauge railway tunnel, originally part of the 1892 single-track deviation, which bypassed the Lapstone Zig Zag across the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia.
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Glenbrook, New South Wales
Glenbrook is a suburb of the Lower Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia.
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Great Western Highway
The Great Western Highway is a state highway in New South Wales, Australia.
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Hiking
Hiking is the preferred term, in Canada and the United States, for a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails (footpaths), in the countryside, while the word walking is used for shorter, particularly urban walks.
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John Lucas (Australian politician)
John Lucas (24 June 1818 – 1 March 1902) was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1860 to 1869 and 1871 to 1880 and the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1880 until his death.
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John Whitton
John Whitton (1820, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, England – 20 February 1898), an Anglo–Australian railway engineer, was the Engineer-in-Charge for the New South Wales Government Railways, serving between 1856 and 1890, considered the Father of New South Wales Railways.
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Lapstone Zig Zag
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.
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Lapstone, New South Wales
Lapstone is a suburb on the eastern escarpment of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia.
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Lithgow Zig Zag
The Lithgow Zig Zag was a zig zag railway built near Lithgow on the Great Western Railway of New South Wales in Australia which operated between 1870 and 1910, to overcome an otherwise insurmountable climb up the western side of the Blue Mountains.
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Lucasville railway station
The Lucasville railway station is a decommissioned railway station on the Lapstone Zig Zag that closed in 1892.
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M4 Western Motorway
The M4 Western Motorway (also known as the M4 Motorway or simply M4) is a dual carriageway motorway in western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Main Western railway line, New South Wales
The Main Western Railway is a major railway in New South Wales, Australia.
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New South Wales
New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
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Royal Australian Air Force
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), formed March 1921, is the aerial warfare branch of the Australian Defence Force (ADF).
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Ruling gradient
The term ruling grade is usually used as a synonym for "steepest climb" between two points on a railroad.
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Sydney sandstone
Sydney sandstone is the common name for Sydney Basin Hawkesbury Sandstone, one variety of which is historically known as Yellowblock, and also as "yellow gold" a sedimentary rock named after the Hawkesbury River north of Sydney, where this sandstone is particularly common.
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Wentworth Falls, New South Wales
Wentworth Falls (postcode: 2782) is a town in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales, situated approximately west of the Sydney central business district, and about east of Katoomba, Australia on the Great Western Highway, with a Wentworth Falls railway station on the Main Western line.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Zig zag (railway)
A railway zig zag, also called a switchback, is a method of climbing steep gradients with minimal need for tunnels and heavy earthworks.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapstone_Zig_Zag
