Warrego Highway

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Queensland

The Warrego Highway is a highway in the south of the Australian state of Queensland. It runs over 720 km between Charleville in south-west of the state and Ipswich, a western suburb of the capital Brisbane. It is part of the Australian highway system and important part of the connection between Brisbane and Darwin. At the same time he is an important link of the rural areas of Southwest Queensland with the metropolitan area around the capital Brisbane.

Course

The Warrego Highway begins in Charleville, a small town in southwest Queensland. This lies at the Warrego River, from which also the Highway takes its name. From Charleville from the road runs in an easterly direction. After about 90 km of the Landsborough Highway ( NA2 ) from Longreach and Cloncurry in the north pushes Coming on the Warrego Highway.

Then the Warrego Highway runs further than 180 km in the east to Roma, a city surrounded by big gas reserves, which are used to power the country. In Roma the Carnarvon Highway ( A55 ) from St. George coming meets the Warrego Highway. After a further 140 km, the small town of Miles is reached. Here crosses the running in the north-south Rivhtung Leichhardt Highway ( A5). The Warrego Highway runs further to the east until it reaches Dalby. In Dalby meeting of the northeast of the Bunya Highway ( S49 ), which leads from Kingaroy according to Dalby and south-west of the Moonie Highway ( S49 ), which runs from St George to Dalby, each other.

The Warrego Highway runs then 85 km to the southeast to Toowoomba, the second largest city in Australia that are not located on the coast, but inland. There crosses the running in a north-south direction New England Highway (A3). From Goondiwindi in the south-west, coming, in addition to the Gore Highway ( A39 ) meets in Toowoomba on the Warrego Highway.

The last 100 km on his way to the Warrego Highway runs back towards the east until it reaches Ipswich. Just before the town meets the Brisbane Valley Highway (R17 ) from the north on the Warrego Highway, just past the Ipswich Cunningham Highway ( N15) of Warwick in the southwest. By combining the two highways gives the Ipswich Motorway (M2).

The highest point in the course of the highway is 665 m and the lowest at 4 m.

Source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007 ISBN. 978-1-74193-232-4. P 6, 7, 8, 19