Bottom Points is a railway station on the

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(heritage railway) in the Blue Mountains area of

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. It is situated at the reversal point of the Lower and Middle Roads of the

Lithgow Zig Zag The Lithgow Zig Zag is a heritage-listed former zig zag railway line built near Lithgow on the Great Western Line of New South Wales in Australia. The zig zag line operated between 1869 and 1910, to overcome an otherwise insurmountable c ...

. When the Zig Zag Railway reopened in October 1975, Bottom Points was a terminal station on the line. It has a

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at one end to replenish locomotives. The signal box was built in 1910 when the Ten Tunnels line opened, and was later relocated. It is a five-minute walk from

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's Zig Zag station on the Main Western line.

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