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Exploring the Historic Helensburgh Train Tunnel
We went ghost hunting at the historic Helensburgh train tunnel south of Sydney. Located about an hour south of Sydney, on the way to Wollongong, is an Aussie historic town nestled in the thick coastal bushland of the southern coastland New South Wales. Originally called Camp Creek, it was established as a workers camp in the 1880s to accommodate coal miners, who worked in the coal mine in the area. Although not confirmed, the naming of Helensburgh is likely related to Scottish immigration, where they named it after a town located by The Clyde river in Scotland which is also named Helensburgh. But it’s the old Helensburgh railway station which…