Wolgan Valley Rail Trail
Sydney and Blue Mountains, NSW
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About This Trail
The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service have done an amazing job in bringing this rail trail back to life. Once at the car park at the start of the walk there are information signs and toilets, with interpretive panels along the way explaining the railway, the locomotives and the shale oil refinery. This has been a $4.3 million project to provide access to the 387m tunnel which is now home to thousands of sparkling glow worms and to complete the track to the valley floor. The tunnel is totally dark, except for the glow worms, so you will need to have a head torch with a red light option, otherwise you won’t see the glow worms. A spectacular walk following the route of a former standard-gauge private railway that served kerosene shale mines and a refinery. The railway ran through two tunnels, the second of which (closer to Newnes) now has a large population of glow worms. The total distance from Newnes Junction to Newnes is 50km. Between Newnes Junction and the first tunnel the former railway is now mostly a gravel road. Shortly after the first tunnel, the road ends at a carpark and from here it is walking only through the glow worm tunnel down to the valley floor. There are two options to travel to the Glow Worm Tunnel Car Park and rail trail from the south – from Lithgow or from Clarence Station site. Both options are around 35km and are close to an hour’s drive on mostly gravel roads.
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