New England Highway

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New South Wales, Queensland

The New England Highway is a highway in southeastern Australia. It provides an important link between Sydney, capital of New South Wales, and Brisbane, capital of Queensland, Anders dar. as the Pacific Highway on the same route is the New England Highway in the interior.

Course

New South Wales

Today, the New England Highway branches in Hexham, north-east of Newcastle on the Pacific Highway from. Already after 4 km, it reaches the Sydney - Newcastle Freeway (N1 ), which creates the connection to Sydney. From there he continued his way to the northwest through the Hunter Valley to Muswellbrook and then turns north. He overcomes the Great Dividing Range and reached Tamworth in the Darling Downs, part of the eponymous New England.

From Tamworth from the road winds to the northeast, reached at Armidale again the crest of the Great Dividing Range and follows it to the north. By Glen Innes and Tenterfield leads them to the border with Queensland.

The highest point in the course of the highway is at 1,430 m, the lowest at 1 m.

Queensland

About Stanthorpe New England Highway continues north to Warwick. There he crosses the Cunningham Highway (N15 / S42), which creates the connection to Brisbane. The New England Highway is located further to the north continued, crossing the Warrego Highway, Toowoomba ( NA2 ), which also leads to Brisbane.

After another 118 km the road the D' Aguilar Highway at Yarraman reached at which it ends.

Numbering

From Hexham to Warwick the New England Highway as a National Road 15 (N15 ) is signposted. There the Cunningham Highway accepts this number. From there to the end in Yarraman the road is numbered A3, which then take over the D' Aguilar Highway Yarraman and later the Burnett Highway.

Economic Importance

Until the Hunter Valley of New England Highway is the main road link for residents and local industry. Due to the high volume of traffic, the highway is already partly converted to a multi-lane road and there are already concrete plans for the remaining sections. The other road attracts mostly through rural areas, and is therefore often only a two-lane road. The distance between Tamworth and Stanthorpe runs at higher altitudes the course of the Great Dividing Range and in the following winter, it comes therefore to this section often to frost and partly heavy snowfall.

Source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007 ISBN. 978-1-74193-232-4. P 6, 9, 23, 27, 28, 29

Department of Transport and Main Roads Pacific Highway (Australia) Pacific Motorway (Sydney–Newcastle) Golden Highway Putty Road Muswellbrook, New South Wales Scone (New South Wales) Kamilaroi Highway Tamworth, New South Wales Oxley Highway Uralla, New South Wales Thunderbolts Way Armidale, New South Wales Guyra, New South Wales Glen Innes (New South Wales) Gwydir Highway Tenterfield, New South Wales Bruxner Highway Stanthorpe, Queensland Warwick (Queensland) Gore Highway Newcastle (New South Wales) New England (New South Wales)
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