Ulan is a small village in eastern

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, Australia. Ulan Post Office opened on 1 September 1893. There is a

coal mine Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...

at Ulan. The Sandy Hollow - Ulan Railway was built to serve this coal mine. In exchange for additional coal leases, the coal company extended the railway for 20 km to connect with other railway lines at

Gulgong Gulgong is a 19th-century gold rush town in the Central Tablelands and the wider Central West regions of the Australian state of New South Wales. The town is situated within the Mid-Western Regional Council local government area. It is locate ...

thus forming an improved alternate route crossing the Great Dividing Range at a lower altitude with improved gradients. Ulan is situated on the edges of the Sydney basin.

Ulan railway station

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Towns in New South Wales Mid-Western Regional Council {{NewSouthWales-geo-stub