Lithgow (New South Wales)

Lithgow
Blast Furnace Park, Lithgow
State :  Australia State : New South Wales
Coordinates : 33 ° 29 ′  S , 150 ° 9 ′  E Coordinates: 33 ° 29 ′  S , 150 ° 9 ′  E Height : 950  m
Residents : 11,530 (2016)
Time zone : AEST (UTC + 10) Postal code : 2790 LGA : City of Lithgow
Lithgow

Lithgow is an Australian city in New South Wales , Australia with around 11,500 residents. It is the seat of the administrative area of the same name (LGA) City of Lithgow . The place was named by John Oxley in honor of the then Chief Auditor of New South Wales William Lithgow .

Lithgow is located on the Great Western Highway about 150 km west of the metropolis of Sydney between the two places Katoomba and Bathurst . The city is located on the western edge of the Blue Mountains , which were declared a World Heritage Site in 2000 . This area includes numerous national parks, including the Blue Mountains , Wollemi and the Gardens of Stone National Park , which are easily accessible from Lithgow.

The city gained fame through the construction of the Zig Zag Railway around 1869, which had to overcome a height difference of 170 meters in a double hairpin . A museum railway is still in operation on this route today and runs daily.

Lithgow is the center of a coal mining area. There are still two coal-fired power plants in the immediate vicinity that supply Sydney with electricity. The first ironworks in Australia was also built here, the ruins of which can still be seen today in the Blast Furnace Park .

sons and daughters of the town

• Andrew Brown , first European settler in Lithgow and well-known industrialist and philanthropist
• Edward Bede Cardinal Clancy (1923-2014), Archbishop of Sydney
• Marjorie Jackson (* 1931), gold medalist and Governor of South Australia
• Marty Roebuck (* 1965), former rugby player
• David Palmer (* 1976), world squash champion

Web links

Commons : Lithgow, New South Wales  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lithgow Tourist Information (English)
• Ironfest

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lithgow (Birdwood St) . In: Climate Averages for Australian Sites . Bureau of Meteorology . Retrieved April 22, 2010.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Bureau of Statistics : Lithgow ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved January 20, 2020.
3. ^ Main Western Line . www.nswrail.net. Retrieved April 22, 2010.