Glenbrook Station

Glenbrook is a residential mountain community 67 km west of Sydney in the Lower Blue Mountains. This picturesque little town of 5,000 people is the biggest community between Penrith and Springwood, further up the mountain. There is a Royal Australia Air Force Base in Glenbrook.
Glenbrook station is on the Blue Mountains train line and was opened in 1913.
The town was originally named Watertank and was a stop on the «little» zig-​zag railway line. The purpose of the stop was so the steam trains could refill their engines with water from the Glenbrook Lagoon. Glenbrook Creek had been dammed up to make a lagoon to store water for the trains, and a pipe-​line was constructed to transport water to a tank built alongside the rail line. When the township grew, the residents obviously realized you can’t have a town called ‘Watertank’ so in 1879 they adopted the name Glenbrook after the Glenbrook Creek. The name Glenbrook was proposed by Sir John Jamieson who believed that the creek was a brook coming from Regents Glen.
When we lived in the mountains we used to get the train to Glenbrook to go to the cute movie theatre here. Indy movies sometimes, or just regular.