Lithgow
Lithgow is a town that developed around the coal mining industry, just west of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales. With the exception of the nearby Zig-Zag steam heritage railway, it has not long been recognised as a visitor destination.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sardaka, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 11,200 residents
- Description: city in New South Wales, Australia
- Also known as: “Lithgow, New South Wales” and “Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bowenfels railway station and Bowenfels rail viaducts.
Bowenfels railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wyp, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Bowenfels railway station is a heritage-listed disused railway station and now visitor's centre and restaurant located on the Main Western line at Bowenfels, in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia.
Bowenfels rail viaducts
Bridge
Photo: Lobster1, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Bowenfels rail viaducts are a series of heritage-listed railway viaducts and railway bridges over Farmers Creek on the Main Western Line at Bowenfels, in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia.
Lithgow
- Categories: city, suburb, and locality
- Location: City of Lithgow, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-33.4815° or 33° 28′ 54″ southLongitude
150.1565° or 150° 9′ 23″ eastPopulation
11,200Elevation
916 metres (3,005 feet)United Nations Location Code
AU LTGOpen location code
4RRGG594+9HOpenStreetMap ID
node 78078822OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Lithgow” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሊትጎ”
- Arabic: “ليثغو”
- Asturian: “Lithgow”
- Basque: “Lithgow (Hegoaldeko Gales Berria)”
- Basque: “Lithgow”
- Bengali: “লিথগু”
- Catalan: “Lithgow”
- Cebuano: “Lithgow”
- Central Kurdish: “لیسگەو”
- Chinese: “利斯戈”
- Danish: “Lithgow”
- Dutch: “Lithgow”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليثجو”
- Finnish: “Lithgow”
- French: “Lithgow”
- Georgian: “ლითგოუ”
- German: “Lithgow”
- Greek: “Λίθγκοου”
- Gujarati: “લિથગો”
- Hindi: “लिथगो”
- Indonesian: “Lithgow, New South Wales”
- Indonesian: “Lithgow”
- Irish: “Lithgow”
- Italian: “Lithgow”
- Japanese: “リスゴー”
- Javanese: “Lithgow”
- Kannada: “ಲಿಥ್ಗೋವ್”
- Korean: “리스고우”
- Latvian: “Litgova”
- Lithuanian: “Litgou”
- Malagasy: “Lithgow”
- Malay: “Lithgow”
- Marathi: “लिथगो”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lithgow”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lithgow”
- Persian: “لیتگو، نیو ساوت ولز”
- Polish: “Lithgow”
- Portuguese: “Lithgow”
- Russian: “Литгоу”
- Scots: “Lithgow”
- Silesian: “Lightgow”
- Silesian: “Lihtgow”
- Sinhala: “ලිත්ගොව්”
- Slovenian: “Lithgow”
- South Azerbaijani: “لیتقوو، یئنی گونئی ولز”
- Spanish: “Lithgow (Nueva Gales del Sur)”
- Spanish: “Lithgow”
- Swedish: “Lithgow (ort)”
- Swedish: “Lithgow”
- Tamil: “லீக்கௌ”
- Telugu: “లిథ్గో”
- Thai: “ลิธโกว์”
- Turkish: “Lithgow, Yeni Güney Galler”
- Turkish: “Lithgow”
- Ukrainian: “Літгоу”
- Urdu: “لیتحجوو”
- Urdu: “لیتھگو، نیوساؤتھ ویلز”
- Vietnamese: “Lithgow, New South Wales”
- Vietnamese: “Lithgow”
- Welsh: “Lithgow”
- Western Panjabi: “لتھگو”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Lithgow”. Photo: Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 3.0.