Another AIM Conference – this time at Coogee Beach.
After the Conference spent time in the Blue Mountains – glad I went on the Zig Zag Railway. In 2013 they were victims to the Bush Fires and lost equipment and have had to rebuilt some of the track. I believe they should be back in business 2018.
In 1972 the Lithgow Switchback Railway Co-op Limited was born and this became the Zig Zag Railway Co-operative Limited in 1974. At this time, the Commissioner for Railways only made heritage locomotives and rolling stock available to the officially sponsored New South Wales Rail Transport Museum. Thus the line was relaid to 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow gauge as used in Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania rather than the New South Wales 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) to allow locomotives and carriages to be procured from these states.