About Glenbrook Tunnel
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The Glenbrook Tunnel is a heritage-listed single-track former railway tunnel and mustard gas storage facility and now mushroom farm located on the former Main Western Line (since deviated) at the Great Western Highway, Glenbrook, in the City of Blue Mountains local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Department of Railways and built from 1891 to 1892 by Department of Railways. It is also known as Lapstone Hill tunnel and Former Glenbrook Railway and World War Two Mustard Gas Storage Tunnel. The property is owned by Blue Mountains City Council and Land and Property Management Authority, an agency of the Government of New South Wales. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 5 August 2011. The railway tunnel was originally part of the 1892 single-track deviation, which bypassed the Lapstone Zig Zag across the Blue Mountains. It is 634 metres; 693 yards (31.5 chains) long and is constructed in an 'S' shape with a gradient of 1:33.
