Bethungra, New South Wales

Infobox Australian Place | type = town
name = Bethungra
state = nsw

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caption = Entering Bethungra
lga = Junee Shire Council
postcode = 2590
pop = 366 (within 7 km radius) [ [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/AS/2/Bethungra.html www.fallingrain.com/world/AS/2/Bethungra] ]
est =
elevation= 432
maxtemp =
mintemp =
rainfall =
county = Clarendon
stategov = Burrinjuck
fedgov =
dist1 = 400
location1= Sydney
dist2 = 70
location2= Wagga Wagga
dist3 = 24
location3= Cootamundra
dist4 = 10
location4= Illabo [ [http://www.travelmate.com.au/MapMaker/MapMaker.asp Travelmate] ]

Bethungra is a small town in Junee Shire in the South West Slopes region of New South Wales, Australia situated on the Olympic Way about 13 kilometres north east of Illabo and 24 kilometres south west of Cootamundra.

Just to the north of the town lies the Bethungra Spiral, a rail spiral built on the Main South railway line to ease the gradients when the line was duplicated between 1941 and 1946.

In 1888, an accident occurred near Bethungra when a train derailed at a washed away culvert, killer 5.

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Bethungra_Hotel_aka_Hotel_Shirleyimage:BethungraSpiral.jpg|Bethungra_Spiralimage:OverpassBethungra.jpg|Overpass_just_south_of_Bethungra_Spiral

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