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The Blue Mountains

Looking back up the tracks, straight up the canyon wall. The railway was built in the 1880's to ferry miners and coal from top to bottom; Katoomba was initially founded as a mining town and there were huge coal and shale mines in the area that shut down in the early 1900's.

AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 9 March 2011 | Views [576]

Looking back up the tracks, straight up the canyon wall. The railway was built in the 1880's to ferry miners and coal from top to bottom; Katoomba was initially founded as a mining town and there were huge coal and shale mines in the area that shut down in the early 1900's.