With soot on the palms of his hands, under his fingernails and dusted across his nose and cheeks, Lee Wiggins is at one with a 54-tonne steam locomotive. Wearing a black felt train driver’s hat, Wiggins was at the helm of one of the first passenger trips on the grand Zig Zag Railway on Saturday…
Mayor to Ban Group From Holding Events Due to Their “Dangerous Vaccination Misinformation”
The Mayor of Australia’s iconic Blue Mountains has announced that he will ban the Australian Vaccination risks Network (AVN) from using public land “to disseminate dangerous misinformation about vaccinations.” “I believe any request by anti-vaccination groups to hold events in the Blue Mountains should be refused,” Blue Mountains Mayor Mark Greenhill said in a statement…
Big Blues: Heading to the Mountains in Australia
The train wound into a serpentine gully, the small stations feeling increasingly remote and old fashioned, as if time and distance were interlinked. Leaving Sydney’s busy Central Station just a couple hours ago made this feel like a commuter trip. The silver double-decker train slipped past the gleaming skyscrapers of the Central Business District, and…
Australia to Build Longest Tunnel in Entire Country
Sydney’s newest underground passage is set to supersede the M8 motorway for the title of the longest tunnel in the country, with the New South Wales (NSW) government confirming plans to build the new record-breaking road in the Blue Mountains. The toll-free mammoth will run 11 kilometres long—two kilometres longer than the previous record—and revolutionise travel…
NSW Announces $50M Eco Tourism Hub in Blue Mountains
New South Wales (NSW) Premier Dominic Perrottet has announced a $50 million investment to build an ecotourism adventure experience in Australia’s Blue Mountains. This comes after the state declared more than 30,000 hectares near Lithgow as a nature reserve. The taxpayer-funded hub will feature Australia’s longest zipline, a rock climbing route, and an elevated canyon…
Australia’s Longest Tunnel Road Earmarked Under Blue Mountains
The New South Wales government is looking to build Australia’s longest tunnel road under the Blue Mountains west of Sydney as part of a “history-making” infrastructure project. If completed, the 11-kilometre tunnel would help shorten the commute between Blackheath and Mount Victoria, as the final stage of the 130 kilometres of planned Great Western Highway…
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