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Hume Freeway

Hume Highway

Proposed to replace in NSW [1]
Length880 km
General directionNortheast-South
From South Western Motorway, Liverpool, New South Wales
viaCampbelltown, NSW, Goulburn, NSW, Albury, NSW, Wodonga, Vic, Wangaratta, Vic, Benalla, Vic, Seymour, Vic, Craigieburn, Vic
To Western Ring Road, Campbellfield, Victoria
Established1817
AllocationLiverpool - NSW/Vic. The kilometre ( American spelling: kilometer) symbol km is a unit of Length in the Metric system, equal to one thousand The M5 South Western Motorway (also known as the M5 South West Motorway, M5 Motorway or simply M5) is a Motorway in south-western Sydney Liverpool is a Suburb in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. For the local government area, see City of Campbelltown. Campbelltown is a Suburb in south-western Goulburn is a provincial City in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Goulburn Mulwaree Council. Albury is a city in New South Wales, Australia, located on the Hume Highway on the northern side of the Murray River. Wangaratta is a cathedral city of about 15685 people in the northeast of Victoria Australia, about 230 km (150 mi from Melbourne along the Benalla is an agricultural city of about 10000 people located just off the Hume Freeway in north-eastern Victoria, Australia, about 40 kilometres Seymour is a township located in the Shire of Mitchell in the state of Victoria, Australia and is located 98 km north of Melbourne. This article is about Craigieburn in Melbourne Australia For Craigieburn in New Zealand 's South Island, see Craigieburn New Zealand. Campbellfield is a northern suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Border:

NSW/Vic. Border - Campbellfield:

Formerly
Major Junctions Metroad 9
Appin Road
Illawarra Highway
Federal Highway
Barton Highway
Lachlan Valley Way
Burley Griffin Way
Snowy Mountains Highway
Sturt Highway
Olympic Highway
Riverina Highway
Murray Valley Highway
Midland Highway
Goulburn Valley Freeway /
Goulburn Valley Highway
Northern Highway
Sydney Road

The Hume Highway / Hume Freeway is one of Australia's most important and notable interstate highways which runs for 880 km inland between Sydney and Melbourne. Metroad 9 is one of Sydney, Australia 's Metroads It is the outer western Sydney Bypass connecting Campbelltown to Windsor Putty Road Appin Road is a New South Wales secondary highway linking Campbelltown and the Sydney's western suburbs with Wollongong. Illawarra Highway connects Wollongong to NSW Southern Highlands. The Federal Highway (official designation National Highway 23) is a short Highway in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory The Barton Highway is a short Highway in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Lachlan Valley Way is a New South Wales state highway running from Booligal on the Cobb Highway to north of Yass on the Hume Freeway Burley Griffin Way is a New South Wales state route, is located in south eastern Australia. The Snowy Mountains Highway is a state highway in New South Wales, Australia. The Sturt Highway is an Australian Highway in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. Olympic Highway is a New South Wales trunk road that links Cowra and Albury at a distance of 338 kilometres Riverina Highway is a highway in New South Wales, Australia. Westwards the highway stretches from Hume Weir, immediately east of Albury The Murray Valley Highway (/ follows the south side of the Murray River in Victoria, Australia. The Midland Highway (A300 B300 C518 links the Victorian towns of Geelong and Mansfield in south-eastern Australia. Goulburn Valley Highway The Goulburn Valley Freeway is a 45 kilometre (two-section Freeway located in Victoria, Australia. Goulburn Valley Freeway The Goulburn Valley Highway / is a Highway located in Victoria, Australia. The Northern Highway is a secondary highway in northern Victoria Hume Freeway Sydney Road (also known as the Hume Highway) is a major urban arterial in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Before adding any more images to this * * page please do carefully consider * * whether they would be mere decoration * * or actually improve Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 It is part of the Auslink National Network and is a vital link for road freight to transport goods to and from the two cities as well as serving Albury, Wodonga and Canberra. The National Highway (now part of the AusLink National Network) is a system of Roads connecting all the States and Territories of Australia Albury is a city in New South Wales, Australia, located on the Hume Highway on the northern side of the Murray River. Canberra ( is the capital city of Australia With a population of over 340000 it is Australia's largest inland City.

The main alternative route is the Princes Highway which goes via the coast rather than inland. The Princes Highway is a segment of Australia's Highway 1 that extends from Sydney to Adelaide and Port Augusta South Australia

Contents

History

The coast of New South Wales from the Queensland border to the Victorian border is separated from the inland by an escarpment, forming the eastern edge of the Great Dividing Range. Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern corner of the mainland continent In Geomorphology, an escarpment is a transition zone between different physiogeographic provinces that involves a sharp steep Elevation differential characterized The Great Dividing Range, also known as the Eastern Highlands, is Australia 's most substantial Mountain range. There are few easy routes up this escarpment. To climb from the coast to the tablelands the Hume Highway uses the Bargo Ramp, a geological feature which provides one of the few easy crossings of the escarpment.

In the first twenty years of European settlement at Sydney (established 1788), exploration southwest of Sydney was slow, but after Charles Throsby's 1818 journey towards present day Goulburn, followed by Hamilton Hume and William Hovell's overland journey from Appin (near Campbelltown) to Port Phillip and return in 1824, development of the Southern Tablelands for agriculture was rapid. The present route of the Hume Highway is much the same as that used by the pioneers.

The route taken by the Hume Highway to climb from the coast to the Southern Tablelands and thence across the Great Divide is situated between the parallel river gorge systems of the Wollondilly and Shoalhaven Rivers. The Shoalhaven River is a river on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia. This country consists generally of a gently sloping plateau which is deeply dissected by the Nepean River and its tributaries. The Nepean River is a river in the coastal region of New South Wales, Australia. The route of the Highway, by using four high level bridges to cross these gorges, avoids the Razorback Range, and has minimal earthworks. The climb from the western side of the Nepean River at Menangle up to Mittagong is fairly sustained, a fact that is hard to appreciate at high speed on the modern freeway. Menangle ( is a small town in New South Wales, Australia, just outside the Sydney suburban area in Wollondilly Shire. Mittagong (postcode 2575 is a town with a population of approximately 6000 in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales, Australia, in The highway climbs non-stop over a distance of 16 km from the Pheasant's Nest bridge over the Nepean River to Yerrinbool, before dropping slightly before the final climb to reach the tablelands at Aylmerton.

In NSW, the Hume Highway (national route 31) runs from Sydney to Albury. The freeway sections are in blue. The Canberra connections are the Federal Highway (National 23) and the Barton Highway (National 25)
In NSW, the Hume Highway (national route 31) runs from Sydney to Albury. The freeway sections are in blue. The Canberra connections are the Federal Highway (National 23) and the Barton Highway (National 25)

At the time of early European exploration, this area was heavily wooded, especially the "Bargo brush", which was regarded as almost impenetrable. The Federal Highway (official designation National Highway 23) is a short Highway in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory The Barton Highway is a short Highway in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Bargo is a small town located in Wollondilly Shire, New South Wales, Australia. In 1798 explorers (Wilson, Price, Hacking, and Collins) reached the Moss Vale and Marulan districts, but this was not followed up. Moss Vale is a town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. Marulan is a town in the Southern Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia near Goulburn in Goulburn Mulwaree Council. Any settlement would have to await the construction of an adequate access track, which would have been beyond the colony's resources at the time, and would have served little purpose as a source of supplies for Sydney, due to the time taken to reach Sydney.

In 1804, Charles Throsby penetrated through the Bargo brush to the country on the tablelands near Moss Vale and Sutton Forest. Charles Throsby (1771 - 1828 was an Australian explorer who opened up much new land beyond the Blue Mountains. Sutton Forest ( is a small Village in the Southern Highlands, 5 km southwest of Moss Vale on the Illawarra Highway in Wingecarribee Shire On another expedition in 1818, he reached Lake Bathurst and the "Goulburn Plains". Goulburn is a provincial City in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Goulburn Mulwaree Council. [2] Many of the early explorers would most likely have used aboriginal guides, but they do not appear to have given them credit.

Early road construction

Governor Lachlan Macquarie ordered the construction of a road, which became known as the Great South Road (the basis of the northern end of the Hume Highway) in 1819 from Picton to the Goulburn Plains and he travelled Goulburn in 1820, but it is unlikely that even a primitive road was finished at that time. Major-General Lachlan Macquarie CB (31 January 1762 – 1 July 1824 Scottish Gaelic spelling Lachlan MacGuaire) British military officer

Towrang bridge of 1839
Towrang bridge of 1839

The Great South Road was rebuilt and completely re-routed between Yanderra and Goulburn by Surveyor-General Thomas Mitchell in 1833. Year 1839 ( MDCCCXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Yanderra ( is a small village situated on the border of the Southern Highlands and Macarthur Region of New South Wales, Australia. Major Sir Thomas Livingstons Mitchell ( June 16, 1792 -1855 surveyor and explorer of south-eastern Australia, was born at Grangemouth The Main Roads Management Act of June 1858 declared the Great Southern Road, from near Sydney through Goulburn and Gundagai to Albury, as one of the three main roads in the colony. However, its southern reaches were described as only a 'scarcely formed bullock track' as late as 1858. The road was improved in the mid 1860s with some sections near Gundagai "metalled" and all creeks bridged between Adelong Creek (approximately 10 kilometres south of Gundagai) and Albury. [3]

Mitchell's route, except for the bypasses at Mittagong, Berima and Marulan (dual carriageways were completed in 1986) is still largely followed by the current highway. Mittagong (postcode 2575 is a town with a population of approximately 6000 in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales, Australia, in Dharawal Aborigines They Marulan is a town in the Southern Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia near Goulburn in Goulburn Mulwaree Council. Mitchell intended to straighten the route north of Yanderra, but was not granted funding, although his proposed route through Pheasants Nest has similarities to the freeway route opened in 1980. Pheasants Nest is a small village in the Macarthur Region of New South Wales, Australia, in Wollondilly Shire. [4] Mitchell's work on the Great South Road is best preserved at Towrang Creek (10 kilometres north of Goulburn), where his stone arch culvert still stands, although it was superseded in 1965 by a concrete box culvert which in turn was superseded by the current route of the highway when it was duplicated in 1972. Towrang is a village in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, in Goulburn Mulwaree Council.

In 1914 the NSW section of the highway was declared a main road. Until it was named the Hume Highway in 1928 it was known as the "Great South Road" in NSW and "Sydney Road" in Victoria. It was named after Hamilton Hume, who in with William Hovell were the first Europeans to traverse an overland route between Sydney and Port Phillip, in what later became Victoria. Hamilton Hume ( 19 June 1797 &ndash 19 April 1873) was the first Australian born explorer William Hilton Hovell ( 26 April 1786 – 9 November 1875) was an English explorer of Australia.

Route Information

At its Sydney end, the Hume Highway begins at Parramatta Road, in Summer Hill. Parramatta Road is the major historical east-west artery of metropolitan Sydney, Australia, connecting the Sydney with Parramatta. Summer Hill is a Suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South This route is numbered as . The first 35km of the highway was known as 'Liverpool Road until August 1928, when it was renamed as part of the Hume or Great Southern Highway, as part of the creation of the NSW highway system.

Of the 880km length of the Hume Highway, currently 92% is dual carriageway or freeway standard in NSW, with mostly two lanes in either direction (97% by December 2009, except for just 20 kilometres left of single carriageway near Tarcutta, Holbrook and Woomargama) and the entire length of the highway or 100% in Victoria is of freeway-grade standard, with two lanes in either direction. However, there are about twenty at-grade intersections within Victoria, even though it is classified for its full length as "freeway".

In Victoria, the Hume Freeway (M31 in blue) runs from Wodonga to Melbourne
In Victoria, the Hume Freeway (M31 in blue) runs from Wodonga to Melbourne

The principal towns which the Hume Highway passes through or bypasses are (from north to south) Campbelltown, Mittagong, Goulburn, Yass, Gundagai, Holbrook and Albury in New South Wales; and Wodonga, Wangaratta, Benalla, Euroa, Seymour and Craigieburn in Victoria. For the local government area, see City of Campbelltown. Campbelltown is a Suburb in south-western Mittagong (postcode 2575 is a town with a population of approximately 6000 in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales, Australia, in Goulburn is a provincial City in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Goulburn Mulwaree Council. Gundagai Holbrook Albury is a city in New South Wales, Australia, located on the Hume Highway on the northern side of the Murray River. Wangaratta is a cathedral city of about 15685 people in the northeast of Victoria Australia, about 230 km (150 mi from Melbourne along the Benalla is an agricultural city of about 10000 people located just off the Hume Freeway in north-eastern Victoria, Australia, about 40 kilometres Euroa is a town in the Shire of Strathbogie in North-East Victoria, Australia. Seymour is a township located in the Shire of Mitchell in the state of Victoria, Australia and is located 98 km north of Melbourne. This article is about Craigieburn in Melbourne Australia For Craigieburn in New Zealand 's South Island, see Craigieburn New Zealand.

At its Melbourne end the original alignment of the Hume Highway began until 2005 at the intersection of Elizabeth St, Flemington Road and Royal Parade. The first section of the former Hume Highway was Royal Parade, which becomes Sydney Road at Brunswick Road and then becomes the Hume Highway itself at Campbellfield. This route is numbered as , and is now officially called Sydney Road.

However as the Hume Freeway approaches Melbourne at the suburb of Craigieburn, 27 km north of the city centre, since 2005, the Craigieburn Bypass diverts the Hume Freeway (and the M31 designation) to the east of the original highway, to terminate at the Western Ring Road . This article is about Craigieburn in Melbourne Australia For Craigieburn in New Zealand 's South Island, see Craigieburn New Zealand. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

This diversion allows traffic from the Melbourne freeway network in suburban Melbourne to travel on a freeway standard road for the entire distance of 330 kilometres to the Olympic Highway (10 kilometres north of Albury), also from the Sydney Orbital Motorway to just north of Tarcutta for about 368 kilometres (Coolac bypass and duplication of Sheahan Bridge is under construction, opening in December 2009). Olympic Highway is a New South Wales trunk road that links Cowra and Albury at a distance of 338 kilometres Albury is a city in New South Wales, Australia, located on the Hume Highway on the northern side of the Murray River. The Sydney Orbital Network is a 110 kilometre Motorway standard ring-road or orbital around the city of Sydney, the capital of New South Wales Tarcutta is a small town located 438km south-west of Sydney on the Hume Highway in New South Wales, Australia.

Duplication of the Hume Highway

In NSW the Hume Highway is dual carriageway from the Sydney Orbital Motorway to the Sturt Highway junction (about halfway between Sydney and Melbourne), except for a section of 11 km at Coolac (where dual carriageway is under construction) and at the 2km long Sheahan Bridge across the Murrumbidgee River at Gundagai (duplication currently under construction). The Sydney Orbital Network is a 110 kilometre Motorway standard ring-road or orbital around the city of Sydney, the capital of New South Wales The Sturt Highway is an Australian Highway in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. Duplication of the Hume Highway between the Sturt Highway interchange and the Olympic Highway is under construction. The Sturt Highway is an Australian Highway in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. Olympic Highway is a New South Wales trunk road that links Cowra and Albury at a distance of 338 kilometres The Australian Government, which funds maintenance and construction of the Hume Highway, aims to duplicate the remaining single carriageway sections by the end of 2009, except for three bypasses of Tarcutta, Holbrook, and Woomargama, totalling about 20 kilometres. Tarcutta is a small town located 438km south-west of Sydney on the Hume Highway in New South Wales, Australia. Holbrook Woomargama is a village community in the south east part of the Riverina. These are intended to be constructed by 2012. By October 2007 highway construction was underway on the following sections: Coolac bypass (11km), Sheahan Bridge duplication (2 km - Under construction), Sturt Highway to Tarcutta (6 km), Kyeamba Hill (9 km), Little Billabong (8 km), Yarra Yarra to Holbrook (12 km), Woomargama to Mullengandra (10 km) and another 22 kilometres between Mullengandra and the Olympic Highway (including a major deviation south of Mullengandra).

Latest news on the Hume Highway dual carriageway construction

F5 widening

The freeway portion of the Hume Highway between the Roden Cutler interchange[5] (where the freeway joins to the M5 Motorway and M7 Motorways) and the southern end of the Berrima bypass is officially designated the F5 freeway. Sir Arthur Roden Cutler, VC, AK, KCMG, KCVO, CBE (24 May 1916 – 22 February 2002 usually known simply as Roden Cutler The M5 South Western Motorway (also known as the M5 South West Motorway, M5 Motorway or simply M5) is a Motorway in south-western Sydney Westlink M7 - formerly Western Sydney Orbital - is one of Sydney Australia 's urban motorways and a part of Metroad 7 and the Sydney Orbital Network

A section of the F5 freeway approximately 4km long between the Roden Cutler interchange and the Brooks Road interchange was widened to four lanes in the southbound direction to accommodate the merging of traffic from the M5, M7 and Hume Highway. The northbound side of the highway was not widened at the same time, but work is underway to widen it to four lanes, with completion anticipated by May 2008. [6] The roadworks for the widening will directly affect traffic flow in the area for the duration of that work due to a reduced speed limit of 80 km/h and reduced lane widths. [7]

The section between Brooks Road and Narellan Road has suffered from extreme congestion in peak times since 2001. By 2007, the situation had worsened such that it is usually congested from early morning to late evening every day. [8] In part, this is attributed to the massive Canberra sized housing subdivision in the Camden/Narellan area. Because this section is only two lanes in each direction, it is not uncommon for the traffic to do only 10 km/h even though the speed limit is 110 km/h. A video called "Gridlock on the F5" was produced[9] and there was a joint campaign between the local paper, the Macarthur Chronicle and Campbelltown City Council's Mayor, Aaron Rule for the F5, south of Brooks Road to Campbelltown Road to be 8 lanes, and 6 lanes from Campbelltown Road to Narellan Road. In September 2007, $150 million in funding was announced and planning has commenced for widening the F5 south of Brooks Road to Narellan Road. The detailed design of the widening works are scheduled to be completed by January 2008,[10][11] with construction to be completed by the end of 2009. [12][13]

Albury bypass

Since March 2007, a bypass of Albury has been opened after a history of announcements and changes of plans throughout 1990 and first discussed or talked about in 1964, when Albury residents failed to agree on whether an 'internal' or 'external' bypass route was more appropriate. Events in March American Red Cross Month Fire Prevention month ( The Philippines) Women's History Month ( United Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The 'internal bypass' argument won the day and approval granted in 2004, and construction began in January 2005, with construction completed and opened to traffic in March 2007. This route is parallel to and on the eastern side of the Sydney-Melbourne railway, beginning at the present highway overpass of the railway 10 kilometres north of Albury. After crossing the Murray River, the bypass route crosses the railway to rejoin the highway at the southern end of the Lincoln Causeway, where the freeway section, bypassing Wodonga, to Melbourne begins. The Albury bypass includes a freeway standard connection to the Murray Valley Highway at Bandiana, east of Wodonga.

Victorian Hume Freeway Upgrade Projects

After the completion of the Craigieburn Bypass, the next upgrade project on the Victorian section of the Hume Freeway is the Donnybrook Road interchange upgrade, directly to the north of the Craigieburn Bypass. The upgrade, costing $32 million, will remove the at-grade intersection with Donnybrook Road (C723) at Kalkallo and replace it with an overpass and entry/exit ramps in both directions. Kalkallo is a small semi-rural village 40 Kilometres north of Melbourne. Works commenced in December 2007 and completion is expected in mid 2009. For the duration of construction the speed limit is 80 km/h in the works zone. [14]

VicRoads is also undertaking planning studies for the upgrading of the Hume Freeway to full freeway standard between Kalkallo and Beveridge by removing direct access from adjoining properties and eliminating local road intersections. VicRoads (Roads Corporation Victoria is a subordinate authority which is the State's road and traffic authority in Victoria, Australia. Kalkallo is a small semi-rural village 40 Kilometres north of Melbourne. Beveridge is a town in Victoria, Australia, located along the Hume Highway, 42 kilometres north of Melbourne in the Shire of Mitchell [15] This section has the highest accident rate of the Hume Freeway in Victoria.

Traffic lights

Today, there is only one set of traffic lights along the whole current route from Melbourne to Sydney. It is located in the town of Holbrook, and is a set of pedestrian lights. Holbrook

Views

Heading north from Melbourne, the road passes through the hills of the lower Great Dividing Range, some of which is covered with box eucalypt forest but of which much is cleared for farmland, before levelling out through flat, mostly cleared farming country through to Wodonga and the Victoria-New South Wales border. The Great Dividing Range, also known as the Eastern Highlands, is Australia 's most substantial Mountain range. Whilst hardly true Australian Outback, a dry summer can leave the almost featureless ground parched and give travellers from greener foreign lands some idea of the actual outback that lies to the north and west. Outback or the Outback refers to remote arid areas of Australia, although the term colloquially can refer to any lands outside of the main Urban areas All of the rural section of the highway in Victoria (280 km) is dual carriageway, and all towns have been bypassed. There is not much of note to see on the highway itself, and from Seymour north the driving is often tedious. Mount Buffalo can be seen in the distance to the east as the highway comes down off the Warby Range near Glenrowan, and a museum commemorating Ned Kelly is located nearby. Mount Buffalo is a mountain plateau in Victoria ( Australia) 200 km northeast of Melbourne. Edward "Ned" Kelly (3 June 1855 &ndash 11 November 1880 was an Australian Bushranger, and to some a Folk hero for his defiance of the colonial

Approximate road distances (in kilometres) along the Hume Freeway southwards from the Victorian border
Approximate road distances (in kilometres) along the Hume Freeway southwards from the Victorian border

Travelling north, after crossing the Murray River, the south bank of which is the Victoria-New South Wales border, the highway continues to passes through the Albury-Wodonga bypass a major regional centre in NSW, that has been bypassed since March 2007 in Albury. The Murray River, or River Murray and sometimes informally referred to as the "Mighty Murray" is Australia 's largest River. Events in March American Red Cross Month Fire Prevention month ( The Philippines) Women's History Month ( United Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Albury is a city in New South Wales, Australia, located on the Hume Highway on the northern side of the Murray River. North of Albury, a major deviation of the highway was constructed in the 1930s due to the inundation of the original route caused by the raising of the wall of the Hume Dam on the Murray River. The deviation commences at Guinea St (the first part of the Riverina Highway east from Albury as far as what is now Old Sydney Road was until then the Hume Highway), and terminates at Bowna. At either end of the original route is the strange sight of the road disappearing into the waters of Lake Hume.

From Albury, the road continues generally north-east towards Holbrook, further north through hills near Gundagai; Then flat bits of land near Yass, before heading due east past Gunning and Goulburn to near Marulan, where it again turns northeast. Most of the New South Wales countryside from Albury to Marulan has been developed for wool production, with Yass and Goulburn in particular noted for their fine wool. Wool is the fiber derived from the specialized skin cells called follicles of animals in the Caprinae family principally sheep, but the hair of certain species

Speed Limits

Like most roads in Australia, the Hume Highway is speed-limited, although it was as recent as 1977 that speed limits were introduced on the section between the Federal Highway interchange and Albury.

Speed limits on the Hume Highway are as follows:

New South Wales Arterial standard (with traffic signals)

Freeway standard (no traffic signals)

Victoria Freeway standard (no traffic signals)

Arterial standard (with traffic signals)

Speed limits above that refer to metropolitan areas refer to the old alignment of the Hume Highway. Hume Freeway Sydney Road (also known as the Hume Highway) is a major urban arterial in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria

Fixed speed cameras locations

In Sydney: next to Ashfield Primary School, near Culdees Road Burwood, Willee St Enfield, Brennan St Yagoona, and Knight St Lansvale. Rural areas: between Gobarralong and Coggans Roads, 5 km north of Coolac, where 350 km of dual carriageway suddenly ends at the bottom of a long incline and the Highway reverts to a poorly-aligned route with limited visibility, and between Dellateroy Creek and Conja Settlement Rd, 5 km north of Tarcutta, again where dual carriageway ends and the Highway reverts to a single carriageway. When the Coolac bypass opens the Speed camera will no longer be operational, due to a "new alignment" of road.

In Victoria, as of January 2008, new fixed speed-cameras have been placed in the median strip along the Craigieburn Bypass and northward to Seymour, at roughly 15-20 km intervals. Seymour is a township located in the Shire of Mitchell in the state of Victoria, Australia and is located 98 km north of Melbourne.

Towns

Almost all towns on the Hume Highway are bypassed. In New South Wales, from Sydney, southwards to Victorian border, the bypassed towns are Ingleburn, Campbelltown, Camden, Picton, Mittagong, Berrima, Marulan, Goulburn, Gunning, Yass, Bowning, Bookham, Jugiong, Coolac, Gundagai and Albury. Ingleburn is a Suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. For the local government area, see City of Campbelltown. Campbelltown is a Suburb in south-western Camden is a historic town in New South Wales, Australia. Camden is Picton is a small town (3027 in 2006 in New South Wales, Australia, in the Wollondilly region in foothills of the Macarthur Area, 80 kilometres Mittagong (postcode 2575 is a town with a population of approximately 6000 in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales, Australia, in Dharawal Aborigines They Marulan is a town in the Southern Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia near Goulburn in Goulburn Mulwaree Council. Goulburn is a provincial City in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Goulburn Mulwaree Council. Gunning is a town on the Old Hume Highway, between Goulburn and Yass in the Southern Tablelands district of New South Wales, Bowning ( altitude 602m is a small town in the Southern Tablelands, 14 km west of Yass on the Hume Highway in Yass Valley Shire. Bookham is a small village in the Southern Tablelands of the Riverina Region of New South Wales, Australia and is a part of the Yass Jugiong is a village community on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River, in the central east part of the Riverina. Coolac is a village in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia in Gundagai Shire. Gundagai Albury is a city in New South Wales, Australia, located on the Hume Highway on the northern side of the Murray River. The three remaining towns on the Hume Highway yet to be bypassed in 2012 will be:

In Victoria; 100% of all towns are bypassed; they are in southwards order from the NSW border Wodonga, Chiltern, Wangaratta, Benalla, Euroa, Violet Town, Seymour, Broadford and Craigieburn. 2012 ( MMXII) will be a Leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Tarcutta is a small town located 438km south-west of Sydney on the Hume Highway in New South Wales, Australia. Woomargama is a village community in the south east part of the Riverina. Holbrook Chiltern is a town in Victoria, Australia, located in the north east of the state between Wangaratta and Wodonga, in the Shire of Indigo Wangaratta is a cathedral city of about 15685 people in the northeast of Victoria Australia, about 230 km (150 mi from Melbourne along the Benalla is an agricultural city of about 10000 people located just off the Hume Freeway in north-eastern Victoria, Australia, about 40 kilometres Euroa is a town in the Shire of Strathbogie in North-East Victoria, Australia. Violet Town is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is in the Shire of Strathbogie local government area Seymour is a township located in the Shire of Mitchell in the state of Victoria, Australia and is located 98 km north of Melbourne. Broadford is a small town in central Victoria, Australia. At the 2006 census, Broadford had a population of 3054 This article is about Craigieburn in Melbourne Australia For Craigieburn in New Zealand 's South Island, see Craigieburn New Zealand.

The old route of the Hume Highway runs straight west from the Cross Roads at Prestons, 4 km south of Liverpool to Carnes Hill, where it joins the route of the Cowpasture Road. It then runs southwest to Camden (the section of the former highway from the Cross Roads to Camden is now called Camden Valley Way).

Camden

Camden lies 60 km south west of Sydney on the Nepean River, and the town dates back to 1840. Camden is a historic town in New South Wales, Australia. Camden is It retains a lot of character with many historic buildings of interest remaining. There is an aviation museum at nearby Narellan. Narellan is a Suburb of south-western Sydney, in the state Urban sprawl has made Camden part of the Sydney metropolitan area.

Camden has been bypassed by the Hume Highway twice. The first bypass was opened in 1973, via the Macarthur Bridge, and runs from Narellan to Benkennie (South Camden). This bypass was in turn bypassed in December 1980 when the section of what was then called the South Western Freeway (route F5) from Campbelltown to Yerrinbool was opened. This linked the freeway sections from the Cross Roads to Campbelltown Rd at St Andrews (opened August 1973) and St Andrews-Camden Road (opened December 1974) to its north with the section from Yerrinbool to Aylmerton (opened May 1977) to its south.

From Camden south to Aylmerton the former highway is now named Remembrance Drive. It climbs southwards from Camden through the Razorback Ridge to Picton, then begins to climb through Tahmoor and Bargo to reach the Southern Tablelands and rejoin the present route of the Hume Highway at Aylmerton, 6 km north of Mittagong. The designation Hume Highway and national route 31 were transferred from what are now Camden Valley Way and Remembrance Drive to the freeway route in the mid 1980s and the former highway route from the Cross Roads to Aylmerton is now state route 89.

Southern Highlands

An alternative route to the highway runs from Aylmerton through Mittagong and Bowral to join the Illawarra Highway at Moss Vale and then follows the Illawarra Highway through Sutton Forest to where it joins the Hume Highway at Hoddles Crossroads (named after Surveyor Robert Hoddle who also laid out the Melbourne CBD).

Mittagong lies 110 km south-west of Sydney, just off the Hume Highway at the edge of the Southern Tablelands. Mittagong (postcode 2575 is a town with a population of approximately 6000 in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales, Australia, in It is notable for being the location of Australia's first ironworks. Mittagong's streets are lined with various species of deciduous trees and it has a busy town centre.

Until 1992 when the Mittagong bypass was opened the town was dominated by trucks and in winter it was also busy with skiers' traffic on the way to the Australian Alps. Today the Hume Highway bypasses Mittagong and all the towns of the Southern Tablelands. In the late 1990s, engineers detected subsidence under part of the bypass where it runs along a steep slope near the Nattai River. This was caused by features of the local geology, and mining activity at the adjacent Mount Alexandra coalmine from the 1950s to the 1970s. [16] The problem was remedied by closing one carriageway at a time and building a pair of 'land bridges' across the unstable section of the slope.

Bowral is home to the famous Bradman Museum which not only celebrates the achievements of Bowral's favourite son, Sir Donald Bradman, but also contains a wealth of world sporting information and memorabilia. Bowral is a town located in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. Sir Donald George Bradman, AC (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001 often referred to as The Don, was an Australian Cricketer widely Bowral is also the setting for "Tulip Time", a Spring celebration where over 100,000 tulips and 25,000 flowers are planted in the town centre.

The population swells during winter when, thousands of visitors book into local hotels and B&Bs to enjoy romantic fires and secluded winter getaways. Bed and breakfast, also known as B&B, is a term originating in the United Kingdom, but now also used all over the world for an establishment that offers accommodation Spring is also very popular with gardening enthusiasts, who come to view some of the world's most beautiful formal gardens designed by eminent landscape architects such as Paul Sorensen, who designed the gardens of Invergowrie.

Key attractions are the glorious gardens, fine restaurants, many successful vineyards and fresh, local produce of a wide variety. Antique and book stores abound, as do quality fashion retailers and specialty stores.

Moss Vale has several beautiful old and attractive buildings and Leighton Gardens, in the centre of the main street, is a pleasant park. Moss Vale is a town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. It is best during spring when its flowers are in blossom or in autumn when the leaves of its exotic deciduous trees are changing colour.

Sutton Forest is surrounded by farms, vineyards and is home to elegant country homes and estates. Sutton Forest ( is a small Village in the Southern Highlands, 5 km southwest of Moss Vale on the Illawarra Highway in Wingecarribee Shire It comprises a church, and inn, a couple of restaurants and one or two specialty shops.

Berrima

Berrima has flourished since it was bypassed in 1989, with tourists finding it an easy day trip from either Sydney or Canberra to enjoy the town square and the Georgian architecture of this historic town. Canberra ( is the capital city of Australia With a population of over 340000 it is Australia's largest inland City.

Twin bridges carrying the Hume Highway over Greenhills Road north of Berrima 34°28′S, 150°21′E
Twin bridges carrying the Hume Highway over Greenhills Road north of Berrima 34°28′S, 150°21′E

Marulan

The Marulan bypass was opened in 1986. The southern part of Governor Lachlan Macquarie's road of 1819 ran from Sutton Forest roughly along existing minor roads through what is now Penrose State Forest to Canyonleigh, Brayton, Carrick and Towrang, where it joined the current route to Goulburn. Major-General Lachlan Macquarie CB (31 January 1762 – 1 July 1824 Scottish Gaelic spelling Lachlan MacGuaire) British military officer Sutton Forest ( is a small Village in the Southern Highlands, 5 km southwest of Moss Vale on the Illawarra Highway in Wingecarribee Shire Branching from this route (now part of the Illawarra Highway) just west of Sutton Forest, a road, now known as Old Argyle Road, developed in the 1820s. Illawarra Highway connects Wollongong to NSW Southern Highlands. It ran to Bungonia, via Wingello, Tallong, and the southern outskirts of Marulan, all, except Wingello, being located in Argyle county, along with Goulburn. Bungonia is a small town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia. Wingello is a village in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia Tallong is a Village in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia. Argyle County New South Wales was one of the original Nineteen Counties in New South Wales and is now one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Counties and their divisions called parishes never became serious units of government in New South Wales, but they are still used in land administration. A parish as an Administrative division of several countries. In England and in one American state ( Louisiana) it is sometimes called

In the early 19th century Bungonia was expected to become a major centre, but it subsequently proved unsuitable for intensive agriculture. Much of Old Argyle Road give the impression of dating from the 1820s, although clearly there must have been a fair amount of human and mechanical maintenance over the last 180 years. It is not recommended after significant rain.

When Thomas Mitchell rerouted the Great South Road in the 1830s, he decided to bring these two roads together to meet at old Marulan, with roads proceeding west to Goulburn and south to Bungonia. Major Sir Thomas Livingstons Mitchell ( June 16, 1792 -1855 surveyor and explorer of south-eastern Australia, was born at Grangemouth When the railway reached Marulan in 1868, the town migrated 3 km north to the railway station. Nevertheless, the old cemetery remains at the Bungonia Road intersection. A quarry is about to be developed near the intersection, so an interchange is to be built. It is at this point that the highway climbs the Marulan Ramp, which is part of the divide between the Shoalhaven and Wollondilly River systems.

Towrang

A major stockade for chain-bound convicts and others involved in the construction of the Great South Road was located on the western side of the Highway at Towrang Creek from around 1836 to 1842. Towrang is a village in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, in Goulburn Mulwaree Council. The stockade became the principal penal establishment in the southern district and was noted for its harsh discipline. There were usually at least 250 convicts stationed there. They slept on bare boards with a blanket apiece, 10 men to a box or cell. One of the two official floggers was later found murdered[17] The stockade used to be accessible by a stile, but this has been taken down to discourage use of the once daunting intersection of the Highway with Towrang Road. Towrang is a village in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, in Goulburn Mulwaree Council. There are the remains of the powder magazine next to the Wollondilly River, three graves on the north bank of Towrang Creek, and the remains of a weir on Towrang Creek built for the stockade. Aboriginal stone tools have also been found on the banks of Towrang Creek, indicating that this was a route well-travelled long before Hamilton Hume came this way in 1824. Hamilton Hume ( 19 June 1797 &ndash 19 April 1873) was the first Australian born explorer

There is also a rest area on the eastern side of the highway, where a well-preserved bridge dating from 1839 (possibly designed by the designer of impressive early bridges in New South Wales, David Lennox) and a 1960s concrete box culvert can be viewed. This article is about David Lennox a Master Stonemason For the American Inventor see " Dave Lennox.

At and in-between the seagull intersections of the Highway with Towrang and Carrick Roads has been recently upgraded and opened in September 2007 to improve traffic safety by a seagull intersection for careful merging for vehicles and a wider median in-between these seagull intersections, which was funded under AusLink. A seagull intersection is a common type of three-way at-grade intersection usually used on high traffic volume roads and dual carriageways AusLink is an Australian Government land transport funding program established in June 2004 and administered by the Department of Transport and Regional Services. [18]

Goulburn

Goulburn is the first city along the Hume Highway from Sydney. Goulburn is a provincial City in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Goulburn Mulwaree Council. It is a farming and admnistration centre, and from this area comes some of the world's finest wool. Goulburn was bypassed in 1992 and the main street (Auburn Street) is quieter, but still busy during Saturday morning shopping. Picturesque Belmore Park is located midway along Auburn Street. Near Belmore Park is located a number of architecturally and historically significant buildings, including the courthouse, the post office and the railway station. Also in central Goulburn are two cathedrals, both of architectural note. Near the railway station on Sloane Street is a number of old houses and hotels.

13 km south of Goulburn along the Hume Highway is the interchange with the Federal Highway which connects to Canberra and the Snowy Mountains. The Federal Highway (official designation National Highway 23) is a short Highway in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory Canberra ( is the capital city of Australia With a population of over 340000 it is Australia's largest inland City. Goulburn also has the very famous "Big Merino" (a type of sheep that is drought tolerant) is at the service station at the southern interchange for more tourism to attract. The Big Merino is a 15 metre tall concrete Merino sheep (a type of Sheep that is Drought tolerant located in Goulburn, New

Gunning

Gunning's 19th century main street was built very wide, for the time of horse and bullock-drawn wagons. Gunning is a town on the Old Hume Highway, between Goulburn and Yass in the Southern Tablelands district of New South Wales, This served the town well when the main highway between Sydney and Melbourne carried cars and trucks through the town, which ceased when the bypass was completed in 1994. It is now much quieter, and the town has been able to resume a more rural pace of life and to develop something of an industry in providing bed and breakfast accommodation.

Yass

Yass has an impressive and historic main street, with well-preserved 19th century verandah-post pubs (mostly converted to other uses}. Yass Valley Way is the main road which links Yass New South Wales and Hume Highway (to Sydney and Melbourne) and Barton Highway It is popular with tourists, some from Canberra and others taking a break from the Hume Highway. Canberra ( is the capital city of Australia With a population of over 340000 it is Australia's largest inland City. Hamilton Hume's farm Cooma Cottage is located east of Yass, close to the intersection of the former routes of the Hume and Barton Highways. He lived there until his death in 1873.

Coolac

An earlier monument to the Dog on the Tuckerbox between Coolac and Gundagai, photographed in 1926
An earlier monument to the Dog on the Tuckerbox between Coolac and Gundagai, photographed in 1926

The 11 kilometre section at Coolac is the last two lane section of highway between Sydney and Gundagai. Tuckerbox 1926jpg|thumb|right|The earlier monument photographed in 1926]]The Dog on the Tuckerbox is an Australian historical monument and tourist attraction located at Snake Coolac is a village in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia in Gundagai Shire. Construction of the bypass is scheduled for completion sometime in 2009. After a delay due to indigenous heritage issues, the construction contract was awarded to Abigroup Contractors Pty Ltd in February 2007. [19][20]

Gundagai

At Snake Gully, adjacent to the highway north of Gundagai is the "Dog on the Tuckerbox". Tuckerbox 1926jpg|thumb|right|The earlier monument photographed in 1926]]The Dog on the Tuckerbox is an Australian historical monument and tourist attraction located at Snake A statue (with souvenir shop next door) was erected five miles (eight kilometres) from Gundagai. Snake Gully serves as a way station for many highway travellers.

The highway bypassed Gundagai in 1977 with the completion of the Sheahan Bridge over the Murrumbidgee River. Gundagai The Murrumbidgee River is a major river in the state of New South Wales, Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT The Prince Alfred Bridge, on the old route of the highway across the Murrumbidgee floodplain, is of major engineering interest, as it is one of Australia's longest timber trestle bridges, as is the adjacent 1903 railway bridge. The Sheahan Bridge is the second longest bridge in NSW. Gundagai was originally located on the river flats directly beside the Murrumbidgee River, but a disastrous flood in 1852 destroyed the town and drowned 89 people. The town was then relocated to its present position. A new grade-separated interchange opened up at West Street in 2006 [9]. Currently the Shehan Bridge is only 1 lane in each direction since 1977, at that time there was no need to have duplication because there was only 2,000 vehicles crossing per day (vcpd), today it is about 10,000 vcpd. Construction work on duplicating the bridge commenced in January 2008, for a second bridge on the Gundagai side of the Sheahan Bridge. [10] [11]

Tumblong

The route of the highway between Tumblong and Tarcutta is the third route of the highway in this location. The original route led west from Tumblong along the Murrumbidgee River, before turning south over difficult country, crossing what is now the Sturt Highway and rejoining the current route of the highway as Lower Tarcutta Road. The Sturt Highway is an Australian Highway in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. This was replaced in December 1938 by the first Tumblong deviation, to the east of the current route. The main features of this section of the highway were a deep, narrow cutting and the reinforced concrete bowstring arch bridge over Hillas Creek. This has been preserved, and is visible on the western side of the highway close to the interchange with the Snowy Mountains Highway. The Snowy Mountains Highway is a state highway in New South Wales, Australia.

Thirty eight km southwest of Gundagai is the interchange with the Sturt Highway, which leads to Wagga Wagga Mildura and Adelaide. The Sturt Highway is an Australian Highway in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. Wagga Wagga Mildura is a regional city in northwestern Victoria, Australia, part of the Rural City of Mildura. Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia with a

Tarcutta

National Truck Driver Memorial at Tarcutta
National Truck Driver Memorial at Tarcutta

Tarcutta, is one of the three remaining towns yet to be bypassed until 2012. Tarcutta is a small town located 438km south-west of Sydney on the Hume Highway in New South Wales, Australia. Tarcutta is located almost exactly halfway between Sydney and Melbourne, has been a popular stopover and change-over point for truck drivers making their way between the two cities. Tarcutta is a small town located 438km south-west of Sydney on the Hume Highway in New South Wales, Australia. There is a memorial to truck drivers who have died on the local stretch of the Hume Highway.

With the improvements to the Hume Highway, which cuts travelling time from Sydney to Melbourne to less than a day, the town's importance to the average motorist has diminished. It was near Tarcutta that the final section of the Hume Highway was sealed in 1940.

Holbrook

Holbrook lies on the Hume Highway between Gundagai and Albury and like Tarcutta and Woomargama, is one of the three remaining towns yet to be bypassed until 2012. Holbrook Tarcutta is a small town located 438km south-west of Sydney on the Hume Highway in New South Wales, Australia. Woomargama is a village community in the south east part of the Riverina. It is notorious for its speed traps. Holbrook was called Germanton until anti-German sentiment during World War 1 led to the town and the shire being renamed in honour of the wartime submarine captain, Lt Holbrook who was awarded the Victoria Cross. Norman Douglas Holbrook VC (born 9 July 1888 Southsea, Hampshire; died Midhurst, Sussex 3 July From 1995, a feature of the town has been a partial reconstruction of HMAS Otway, an Oberon class submarine. This landmark was in recognition of the town's namesake's connections with submarines. In addition, Holbrook can also hold a very famous claim to besides a submarine, that it has the only one set of traffic signals (for pedestrians) on the whole of the Hume Highway from the Melbourne's Western Ring Road to the Sydney Orbital Network. Holbrook The traffic light, also known as traffic signal, stop light, traffic lamp, stop-and-go lights, robot or semaphore, A pedestrian is a person travelling on foot whether Walking or Running. Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 The Sydney Orbital Network is a 110 kilometre Motorway standard ring-road or orbital around the city of Sydney, the capital of New South Wales Northern Section Southern Section

Woomargama

Woomargama, is a village between Table Top and Holbrook and is one of the three remaining towns yet to be bypassed until 2012. Woomargama is a village community in the south east part of the Riverina.

Table Top

Table Top is a community in the south east part of the Riverina. Table Top/Ettamogah is an outer suburb of the city of Albury New South Wales, located north of Albury and west of Bowna. It is situated on the Hume Highway, about 16 kilometres north of Albury. It has a population of approximately 4510 people. Roadworks on a bridge from two to third lanes on a bridge has been completed since October 2006 [12] [13].

Albury-Wodonga

Albury's history is linked with the two famous Australian explorers, Hamilton Hume and William Hovell, as the city's location sprung from their crossing of the Murray River. Albury is a city in New South Wales, Australia, located on the Hume Highway on the northern side of the Murray River. Hamilton Hume ( 19 June 1797 &ndash 19 April 1873) was the first Australian born explorer William Hilton Hovell ( 26 April 1786 – 9 November 1875) was an English explorer of Australia. The Murray River, or River Murray and sometimes informally referred to as the "Mighty Murray" is Australia 's largest River. Albury, commonly associated with its Victorian twin, Wodonga, is one of the few rural Australian cities to experience a boom, mainly from industrialisation in recent times. Albury is by far the largest centre that has been bypassed since March 2007 [14] by the Hume Highway. Events in March American Red Cross Month Fire Prevention month ( The Philippines) Women's History Month ( United Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The population of the Albury-Wodonga region has exceeded 100,000.

After decades of debate about the route and the funding obligations of the state and federal governments, construction of a freeway 'internal bypass', running through the city itself, commenced in 2005 and was completed March 2007. [21] In addition to catering for through traffic, the new route will serve local residents as a number of interchanges are to be built and it will provide a second road crossing of the Murray River.

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Wangaratta

Wangaratta is, after Wodonga, the largest centre in northeast Victoria (population 17,000). Wangaratta is a cathedral city of about 15685 people in the northeast of Victoria Australia, about 230 km (150 mi from Melbourne along the It is at the junction of the Hume and Ovens Highways (the 'Great Alpine Road'). The area around it was visited by Hume and Hovell in 1824 and the town was founded in 1837 when the surrounding area was open for farming.

The attractions around town include Merriwa Park, a sunken garden adjacent to the King River, Airworld at Wangaratta Airport, and old goldfield areas of nearby Beechworth and Chiltern. Beechworth is a well-preserved historical town located in the north-east of Victoria Australia, famous for its major growth during the gold rush days of the mid-1850s Chiltern is a town in Victoria, Australia, located in the north east of the state between Wangaratta and Wodonga, in the Shire of Indigo

Benalla

A passable section of "Sydney Road" in the shire of Benalla, 1914.
A passable section of "Sydney Road" in the shire of Benalla, 1914. Benalla is an agricultural city of about 10000 people located just off the Hume Freeway in north-eastern Victoria, Australia, about 40 kilometres

Benalla is a large town located just off the Hume Freeway between Melbourne and Wangaratta. Benalla is an agricultural city of about 10000 people located just off the Hume Freeway in north-eastern Victoria, Australia, about 40 kilometres Founded in 1848, growth was slow until a goldrush in the 1850s. It had many associations with the Kelly gang and the courthouse was the venue for a number of their trials. It also has a memorial to the Australian war hero Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop, an Australian doctor who acted as a leader to allied troops on the Thailand-Burma Railway in World War II. Lieutenant Colonel Sir Ernest Edward "Weary" Dunlop AC, CMG, OBE, KStJ ( July 12, 1907 – The Burma Railway, also known also as the Death Railway, the Thailand-Burma Railway and similar names is a 415 km (258 mile railway between World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including

Euroa

Euroa is famous for a Ned Kelly bank robbery. Euroa is a town in the Shire of Strathbogie in North-East Victoria, Australia. Edward "Ned" Kelly (3 June 1855 &ndash 11 November 1880 was an Australian Bushranger, and to some a Folk hero for his defiance of the colonial The town is located on the Seven Creeks and has pretty gardens and a number of attractive 19th century buildings.

Seymour

The Hume Highway bypass of Seymour opened in December 1982. Seymour is a township located in the Shire of Mitchell in the state of Victoria, Australia and is located 98 km north of Melbourne. Seymour remains on the Goulburn Valley Highway. Goulburn Valley Freeway The Goulburn Valley Highway / is a Highway located in Victoria, Australia. The town is in the rich Goulburn Valley which supports the local vineyards. The large Puckapunyal military base is located west of Seymour. Puckapunyal is an Australian Army base in north-central Victoria Once the centre of the bushranging area of Victoria, it has a museum which displays many period relics of that era. It was until the 1970s a major railway maintenance centre, and part of the railway workshops now houses a railway museum. The museum's collection of rolling stock, including State carriages used by governors and monarchs, is extensive.

Donnybrook

Donnybrook is just 5 kilometres north of Craigieburn. The Federal or Commonwealth Government of Australia under AusLink is providing $13 million for construction of a grade-separated interchange with the Hume Freeway, currently it is an extremely dangerous at-grade interchange at Donnybrook. AusLink is an Australian Government land transport funding program established in June 2004 and administered by the Department of Transport and Regional Services. Completion of the grade-separation interchange is expected to be 2009. This article is about the year For the film see 2009 Lost Memories. [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]

Craigieburn

Prior to 2005; the Hume Freeway ended just outside of Craigieburn, this was a major bottleneck in Craigieburn with 12 sets of traffic signals - Just to get into Melbourne or even onto the Melbourne Freeway system. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This article is about Craigieburn in Melbourne Australia For Craigieburn in New Zealand 's South Island, see Craigieburn New Zealand. The traffic light, also known as traffic signal, stop light, traffic lamp, stop-and-go lights, robot or semaphore, Since 2005; the Craigieburn Bypass linkes directly to the Western Ring Road to avoid a notorious bottleneck. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

See also

References

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