Capricorn Highway

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Queensland

The Capricorn Highway is a highway in the eastern part of the Australian state of Queensland. It is about 567 km long, runs in an east -west direction and connects the Bruce Highway at Rockhampton on the east coast of Queensland with the Landsborough Highway at Barcaldine in the center of the country. The highway runs along its entire length parallel to the Tropic of Capricorn (English: Tropic of Capricorn ), after which it was named.

History

The Capricorn Highway owes its existence to the construction of the line of the Great Northern Railway. This railway line was built from Rockhampton from the west. The construction began around 1865 in Rockhampton, 1892 Longreach and Winton 1899 was achieved as the end point of the line. Along the railway line provisional places were built as housing and care option for the workers on the railway line. Many of these places were closed after a few years, but some remained inhabited and still form important places along the railway line.

Because of these conditions driveways emerged beside the railway line whatsoever for horse-drawn carts between localities. These routes have been gradually expanded and now make up the Capricorn Highway, which always runs close to the railway line and it crosses several times.

Course

In Rockhampton branches off the Capricorn Highway from the Bruce Highway ( NA1 ) to east - southeast. Shortly after the settlement, ' Westwood '' opens the Leichhardt Highway a (A5 ) from the south. As the railway line crosses the Capricorn Highway to Dawson River at Duaringa and continues on his way to the east. After overcoming the Great Dividing Range and cross the Comet River, he reached the city of Emerald, where the Gregory Highway ( A7) crosses. Shortly after the Capricorn Highway to Belyando River crossed, he reached the small town of Alpha. Between Alpha and the end of the road in Barcaldine, the highway leads yet on the Alice River. In Barcaldine he meets Landsborough Highway ( NA2 ).

The highest point in the course of the highway is 559 m and the lowest at 6 m.

Source

  • Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007 ISBN. 978-1-74193-232-4. Page 10 11
Department of Transport and Main Roads Barcaldine, Queensland Dawson River (Queensland) Blackwater (Queensland) Nogoa River Emerald (Queensland) Jericho (Queensland) Longreach, Queensland Winton (Queensland)
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