Cullerin is a small township in the

Southern Tablelands The Southern Tablelands is a geographic area of New South Wales, Australia, located south-west of Sydney and west of the Great Dividing Range. The area is characterised by high, flat country which has generally been extensively cleared and ...

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, Australia. It is on the

Old Hume Highway The Old Hume Highway, an urban and rural road, may be described as any part of an earlier route of the Hume Highway, which traverses Victoria and New South Wales between the cities of Sydney and Melbourne in Australia. In some places, the hi ...

and Main South railway line in

Upper Lachlan Shire Upper Lachlan Shire is a local government area in the Southern Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire was formed in February 2004 from Crookwell Shire and parts of Mulwaree, Gunning and Yass Shires. The mayor of Upper Lac ...

. The Cullerin railway station opened in 1880 and closed in 1973. At the , it had a population of 38.

Transport

Highest point of Sydney-Melbourne at Cullerin

Cullerin is at the summit of a stretch of

ruling grade The term ruling grade is usually used as a synonym for "steepest climb" between two points on a railroad. More simply, the steepest grade to be climbed dictates how powerful the motive power (or how light the train) must be in order for the run t ...

of the Main Southern Rail line. It lies a few kilometres west of the Great Dividing Range. The

Lachlan River The Lachlan River is an intermittent river that is part of the Murrumbidgee River, Murrumbidgee drainage basin, catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, located in the Southern Tablelands, Central West (New South Wales), Central West, and R ...

and other rivers to the west flow inland, while the

Wollondilly River The Wollondilly River, an Australian perennial river that is part of the Hawkesbury Nepean catchment, is located in the Southern Tablelands and Southern Highlands regions of New South Wales. The river meanders from its western slopes near C ...

and other rivers to the east flow to the Pacific.

References

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