There’s a conservation management and cultural tourism plan for Glenrock Lagoon online at http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/ that is a wealth of information about all the ~150 historical artifacts in the area!
…including GPS location details!
After a bit of poking at python, I got the UTM information uploaded to a GPS, and a GPX file of all the waypoints […]
Just a quick dump of a few of the photos I took on a visit to the Richmond Vale Railway, and the Hexham Swamp that it surrounds. If I waited until all the prep was done, like geotagging, writing-up all the photos, etc., I’d never get it done..
The Hexham Swamp is a formal Nature Reserve […]
Drift Away (GC1APFT)
S 32° 53.606 E 151° 33.639
I’ve read about there being an abandoned mine near to Mt. Sugarloaf for some time, but it wasn’t until someone placed a geocache there that I found out its location.
Photos after the jump…
The Wallsend Enterprise Centre, between Cooper and Dan Rees Streets– “at the entrance to Wallsend”. The monthly meeting-place for LOGIN, the Linux Owners Group of Newcastle (www.newcastlelug.org).
When I used to live on Kemp St in the 1970s, this was still an abandoned collery railway shed..
While reading on Wikipedia about the Cockle Creek railway platform, I found a mention of a private rail service from Cockle Creek to West Wallsend, Seahampton, Killingworth, Barnsley, and the now vanished town of Fairley.
The Wikipedia article for West Wallsend has the details. According to it, the Fairley (aka Seaham No.2 Colliery) train junction was […]