Lapstone, New South Wales
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Lapstone () is a small village on the eastern escarpment of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia. The village consists mostly of stand-alone housing and has a few public facilities such as a football field, a number of netball fields and a play area attached for young children. It is accessible by road via the Great Western Highway/M4 Motorway and has a station on the Blue Mountains line of the CityRail rail network. Unlike most Blue Mountains villages it does not have its own Rural Fire Service Brigade but instead has a combined brigade with the neighbouring village of Glenbrook.
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The first "little" zigzag line opened near Glenbrook in 1867, a part of the ascent of Lapstone Hill on a gradient of 1 in 30-33, which was built up the side of the range with comparatively light earthwork, although it includes the substantial seven-span sandstone Knapsack Viaduct. This was later widened to carry the old Great Western Highway, when the deviation around the little zig zag was built, but it is now part of a walking trail on the old railway/highway alignment, including a memorial to the engineer in charge of the construction of the Blue Mountains line and many other early railways, John Whitton.
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