Great Western Highway, Emu Plains
1950s
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View looking east. The gantry across the road is part of a continuous ropeway that was constructed from McCanns Island on the Nepean River at Emu Plains to the dam site at Warragamba. It supplied the site with sand and gravel from Castlereagh. The ropeway ran for nineteen kilometres and carried 600 buckets. The ropeway was locally known as the flying fox.
Title:
Great Western Highway, Emu Plains
Date of work:
1950s
Search dates:
01 Jan 1950 - 31 Dec 1959
Reference number:
1991
Level of description:
Item from Collection: Photographs
Part of:
Series: General Photographic Collection
Access restrictions:
Unrestricted
Use restrictions:
Unrestricted
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Record number:
313341