Climbing the Clouds: The Zig Zag Railway

The Zig Zag Railway is a heritage railway near Lithgow in New South Wales, Australia — part of the iconic Great Lithgow Zig Zag engineered in the late 1860s to help trains climb and descend the challenging western slopes of the Blue Mountains. Trains run through sandstone escarpments using zig-zag reversals in the track — a clever engineering solution of its time. #SteamTrain #HeritageRailway #HistoricTrain #TrainRide #TrainJourney #RailwayHistory #SteamLocomotive #VintageTravel #OldWorldCharm #TrainLovers