Metropolitan Colliery

The Metropolitan Colliery is a coal mine located near Helensburgh, New South Wales owned by Peabody Energy. It was opened by in 1887 by the Cumberland Coal & Iron Mining Company.

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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Lilyvale railway tunnels and Helensburgh Glow Worm Tunnel.

Lilyvale railway tunnels

Lilyvale railway tunnels are heritage-listed railway tunnels on the Illawarra railway line at Lilyvale, City of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Lilyvale railway tunnels is situated 780 metres east of Metropolitan Colliery.

The Metropolitan Tunnel, also known as Helensburgh Glow Worm Tunnel, is a disused rail tunnel in Helensburgh, New South Wales. It is a popular tourist attraction due to its glow worm population. Helensburgh Glow Worm Tunnel is situated 560 metres north of Metropolitan Colliery.

Helensburgh railway station

Railway station

Photo: Abesty, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Helensburgh railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the South Coast railway line in New South Wales, Australia. It serves the town of Helensburgh. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. Helensburgh railway station is situated 1 km north of Metropolitan Colliery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Helensburgh and Otford.

Helensburgh

Photo: Maxim75, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Helensburgh is a small town, located 45 kilometres south of Sydney and 35 kilometres north of Wollongong and north and above the Illawarra escarpment and region.

Otford

Suburb

Photo: Maxim75, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Otford is a village in the Otford Valley located 55 km south of the Sydney and 30 km north of the Wollongong CBD in New South Wales, Australia. Otford is within the local government area of the City of Wollongong.

Stanwell Tops

Suburb

Stanwell Tops is an exurban locality between the cities of Sydney and Wollongong on the New South Wales, Australia coastline. It lies northwest of Stanwell Park and southwest of Otford. Stanwell Tops is situated 4 km south of Metropolitan Colliery.

Metropolitan Colliery

Type: Quarry
Description: coal mine in New South Wales, Australia
Categories: coal mine and industry
Location: City of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-34.18688° or 34° 11′ 13″ south

Longitude

150.99524° or 150° 59′ 43″ east

Operator

Peabody Energy

Open location code

4RQGRX7W+63

OpenStreetMap ID

way 40483447

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=quarry

Wikidata ID

Q96392751

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Norm O’Brien Park and Helensburg Glow Worms.

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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 Wikipedia page “Metropolitan Colliery”. Photo: Cheggas7, CC BY-SA 4.0.