Hume Freeway Hume Highway
The Hume is National Route 31 from Sydney to Albury and National Route M31 from Wodonga to Melbourne
General direction	Northeast-South
From	South Western Motorway, Liverpool, New South Wales
via	Campbelltown, NSW, Goulburn, NSW, Albury, NSW, Wodonga, Vic, Wangaratta, Vic, Benalla, Vic, Seymour, Vic, Craigieburn, Vic
To	Western Ring Road, Campbellfield, Victoria
Established	1817
Major Junctions	Illawarra Highway Federal Highway Barton Highway Snowy Mountains Highway Sturt Highway Olympic Highway Riverina Highway Murray Valley Highway / Midland Highway Goulburn Valley Freeway 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. 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 serving Albury, Wodonga and Canberra. Image File history File links Australian_National_Route_M31. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... Albury is a city in New South Wales, Australia, located on the Hume Highway on the Northern side of the Murray River. ... Wodonga () is a small city on the Victorian side of the border with New South Wales, 300 kilometres north-east of Melbourne, Australia. ... This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre. ... Image File history File links NSW_M5. ... 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, New South Wales, Australia. ... Liverpool is a suburb in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Queen Street in Campbelltown Campbelltown is a suburb and the CBD (central business district) of the City of Campbelltown, in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, located about 44 km south west of the Sydney central business district. ... Location of Goulburn in New South Wales (red) Court house opened 1887 Goulburn is a provincial cathedral 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. ... Wodonga () is a small city on the Victorian side of the border with New South Wales, 300 kilometres north-east of Melbourne, Australia. ... Wangaratta is a cathedral city of about 19,000 people in the northeast of Victoria, Australia, about 230 km (150 mi) from Melbourne along the Hume Highway, with Benalla 45 km (25 mi) to the southwest, and Albury-Wodonga 72 km (40 mi) to the northeast. ... Benalla (36°33′S 145°58′E) is an agricultural town of about 12,000 people on the Hume Freeway in north-eastern Victoria, Australia, about 40 kilometres south of Wangaratta. ... Location of Seymour in Victoria (red) Seymour (Population 7000) is a township located in the Mitchell Shire in the state of Victoria, Australia and is located 97 kilometres to the north of Melbourne. ... This article is about Craigieburn in Melbourne, Australia. ... Image File history File links Australian_National_Route_M80. ... Western Ring Road is a freeway in Melbourne connecting the northern suburbs and the western suburbs to interstate freeways. ... Campbellfield is a northern suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Image File history File links Australian_Route_48. ... Illawarra Highway connects Wollongong to NSW Southern Highlands. ... Image File history File links Australian_National_Route_23. ... Lake George in August 2005 with the Federal Highway on the left. ... Image File history File links Australian_National_Route_25. ... The Barton Highway is a short highway in New South Wales, Australia. ... Image File history File links Australian_Route_18. ... The Snowy Mountains Highway is a state highway in New South Wales, Australia. ... Image File history File links Australian_National_Route_20. ... The Sturt Highway, outside of Gawler, South Australia. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Olympic Highway, National Route 41, links Albury to Cowra Olympic Highway is a New South Wales trunk road that links Cowra and Albury at a distance of 338 kilometres. ... Image File history File links Australian_Route_58. ... Riverina Highway (National Route 58) is a New South Wales highway. ... Image File history File links Australian_Alphanumeric_State_Route_B400. ... The Murray Valley Highway (Route B400) follows the south side of the Murray River in Victoria, Australia. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Australian_Alphanumeric_State_Route_A300. ... This article is about the highway in Victoria, Australia. ... Image File history File links Australian_National_Route_M39. ... The Goulburn Valley Highway exit to Seymour and Yea near the Hume Freeway The Goulburn Valley Freeway is a freeway located in Victoria, Australia. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... See also Northern Highway, Belize. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Sydney Road, Brunswick, looking south to the central business district Sydney Road is a major thoroughfare in the northern suburbs of Brunswick and Coburg in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre. ... Australias National Highway The National Highway is a system of roads connecting all the States and Territories of Australia, and is the major network of highways connecting Australias largest and most important cities. ... Albury is a city in New South Wales, Australia, located on the Hume Highway on the Northern side of the Murray River. ... Wodonga () is a small city on the Victorian side of the border with New South Wales, 300 kilometres north-east of Melbourne, Australia. ... For other uses, see Canberra (disambiguation). ...

The main alternative route is the / Princes Highway which goes via the coast rather than inland. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Australian_Route_1. ... The Princes Highway is a segment of Australias Highway 1 that extends from Sydney to Adelaide, via Melbourne. ...

History

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)

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. 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. Image File history File links Hume_Hwy_(NSW)_Distances_Updated. ... Image File history File links Hume_Hwy_(NSW)_Distances_Updated. ... Lake George in August 2005 with the Federal Highway on the left. ... The Barton Highway is a short highway in New South Wales, Australia. ... Slogan or Nickname: Sunshine State, Smart State Motto(s): Audax at Fidelis (Bold but Faithful) Other Australian states and territories Capital Brisbane Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Quentin Bryce Premier Anna Bligh (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 28  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $158,506 (3rd... VIC redirects here. ... In geology, an escarpment is a transition zone between different physiogeographic provinces that involves an elevation differential, often involving high cliffs. ... The Great Dividing Range, also known as the Eastern Highlands, is Australias most substantial mountain range. ...

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. This country consists generally of a gently sloping plateau which is deeply dissected by the Nepean River and its tributaries. 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. 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. The Wollondilly River is located in the State of New South Wales, Australia. ... The Warri Bridge on the Kings Highway which crosses the river near Braidwood The Shoalhaven River is a river on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia. ... Looking north towards Penrith Looking out through the foliage on the banks of the Nepean River at Tench Reserve, Penrith. ... 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 6,000 in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. ...

At the time of early European exploration, this area was heavily wooded, especially the "Bargo brush", which was regarded as almost impenetrable. In 1798 explorers (Wilson, Price, Hacking, and Collins) reached the Moss Vale and Marulan districts, but this was not followed up. 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. Bargo is a small village, located in Wollondilly Shire, approximately 100km south west of Sydney. ... Moss Vale is a town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. ... Mural at Marulan which says that it lies on the 150 meridian Marulan (34°42′S 150°00′E) is a town in New South Wales near Goulburn. ...

In 1804, Charles Throsby penetrated through the Bargo brush to the country on the tablelands near Moss Vale and Sutton Forest. On another expedition in 1818, he reached Lake Bathurst and the "Goulburn Plains".^[1] Many of the early explorers would most likely have used aboriginal guides, but they do not appear to have given them credit. Charles Throsby (1771 - 1828) was an Australian explorer who opend 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. ... Location of Goulburn in New South Wales (red) Court house opened 1887 Goulburn is a provincial cathedral city in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Goulburn Mulwaree Council. ...

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, Governor of New South Wales Major-General Lachlan Macquarie CB (31 January 1762[1] – 1 July 1824), British military officer and colonial administrator, served as Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821 and had a leading role in the social, economic and architectural development...

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. This route, except for the bypasses at Mittagong, Berima and Marulan, dual carriageways were completed in 1986, and is still largely followed by the current highway. 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.^[2] 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. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (820 × 615 pixel, file size: 181 KiB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Convict-built bridge dated 1939, for the Great South Road, at Towrang, New South Wales, Australia. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (820 × 615 pixel, file size: 181 KiB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Convict-built bridge dated 1939, for the Great South Road, at Towrang, New South Wales, Australia. ... 1839 (MDCCCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Yanderra () is a small village in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wollondilly Shire. ... 1838 map of Victoria and New South Wales showing towns, major rivers and the limits of the Colony at the time. ... Mittagong (postcode: 2575) is a town with a population of approximately 6,000 in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. ... Berrima is a village in the Southern Highlands district on the old Hume Highway between Canberra and Sydney, Australia, and is now popular with visitors from both cities, especially on weekends. ... Mural at Marulan which says that it lies on the 150 meridian Marulan (34°42′S 150°00′E) is a town in New South Wales near Goulburn. ... Pheasants Nest is a small village in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wollondilly Shire. ... 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 Hamilton Hume (19 June 1797-19 April 1873) was an Australian explorer. ... William Hilton Hovell (April 26, 1786 - November 9, 1875) was an English explorer of Australia. ...

Route Information

At its Sydney end, the Hume Highway begins at Parramatta Road, in Summer Hill. 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. Parramatta Road is the major historical east-west artery of metropolitan Sydney, Australia, connecting the City of Sydney with Parramatta. ... Summer Hill is a suburb in the Inner West area of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Image File history File links Australian_State_Route_31. ...

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 highly dangerous at-grade intersections within Victoria, even though it is classified for its full length as "freeway". There are no current plans or funding to make all these intersections fully grade-separated. VIC redirects here. ...

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. Hand drawn. ... Hand drawn. ... Queen Street in Campbelltown Campbelltown is a suburb and the CBD (central business district) of the City of Campbelltown, in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, located about 44 km south west of the Sydney central business district. ... Mittagong (postcode: 2575) is a town with a population of approximately 6,000 in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. ... Location of Goulburn in New South Wales (red) Court house opened 1887 Goulburn is a provincial cathedral city in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Goulburn Mulwaree Council. ... Yass is a town in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Yass Valley Shire. ... Gundagai is a town located along the Murrumbidgee River and Muniong and Yambla Mountain ranges, 390 km south-west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... HMAS Otways hull on display at Holbrook, New South Wales. ... Albury is a city in New South Wales, Australia, located on the Hume Highway on the Northern side of the Murray River. ... Wodonga () is a small city on the Victorian side of the border with New South Wales, 300 kilometres north-east of Melbourne, Australia. ... Wangaratta is a cathedral city of about 19,000 people in the northeast of Victoria, Australia, about 230 km (150 mi) from Melbourne along the Hume Highway, with Benalla 45 km (25 mi) to the southwest, and Albury-Wodonga 72 km (40 mi) to the northeast. ... Benalla (36°33′S 145°58′E) is an agricultural town of about 12,000 people on the Hume Freeway in north-eastern Victoria, Australia, about 40 kilometres south of Wangaratta. ... Euroa (postcode: 3666, 36°45′S 145°34′E) is a town in the Strathbogie Shire in North-East Victoria, Australia. ... Location of Seymour in Victoria (red) Seymour (Population 7000) is a township located in the Mitchell Shire in the state of Victoria, Australia and is located 97 kilometres to the north of Melbourne. ... This article is about Craigieburn in Melbourne, Australia. ...

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. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...

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. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Craigburn Bypass, also known as the hume freeway (m31), is a 10 kilo freway bypass of the currant day traffic cloged hume highway between cambellfild and craigburn in melbournes nourthern suburbs the bypass starts at the western ring road thomastown and than ends and joins the hume freeway north of... Western Ring Road is a freeway in Melbourne connecting the northern suburbs and the western suburbs to interstate freeways. ... Image File history File links Australian_National_Route_M80. ...

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 Coolac for about 360 kilometres. Princes Freeway at Lara Eastern Freeway, looking towards Melbourne city Main article: Road transport in Victoria This is a list of freeways in Victoria, Australia. ... Olympic Highway, National Route 41, links Albury to Cowra 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. ... Sydney Orbital Motorway is a planned network of motorways (tollways) encircling Sydney and is the longest ring road in Australia. ... Coolac is a village in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia in Gundagai Shire. ...

Duplication of Hume Highway

In NSW the Hume Highway is dual carriageway from the Sydney Orbital Motorway to 22 km south of Tarcutta (440 km from Sydney and the halfway point on the highway), except for a section of 11 km at Coolac (Where a dual carriageway 'alignment' deviation is under construction), also the Sheahan Bridge across the Murrumbidgee River at Gundagai (2km, awarded contract - Yet to commence construction). The Bridge and approaches will be duplicated to dual carriageway standards by the end of 2009, and between the Sturt Highway interchange and the Olympic Highway are about couple of additional lengths of dual carriageway, with the remainder of this section of the highway consisting of about 80 kilometres to be duplicated by the end of 2009, leaving only 20 kilometres left until 2012 of two-lane road with overtaking lanes at intervals of about every 4 kilometres or so. Construction of highway duplication did commence since October 2007 on all the following; Coolac bypass (11km), Sheahan Bridge duplication (2 km, awarded contract - Yet to commence contruction), Sturt Highway to Tarcutta (6 km), Kyeamba Hill (9 km), Little Billabong (8 km), Yarra Yarra to Holbrook (12 km) and Woomargama to Mullengandra (10 km) and the other 22 kilometres (including a deviation of the highway just south of Mullengandra to the Olympic Highway, this section has funding and planning approval since May 2006 and on this section of highway duplication commenced since November 2007, and will be dual carriageway by December 2009 by Alliances of seven contractors. Sydney Orbital Motorway is a planned network of motorways (tollways) encircling Sydney and is the longest ring road in Australia. ... The Sturt Highway, outside of Gawler, South Australia. ... Olympic Highway, National Route 41, links Albury to Cowra Olympic Highway is a New South Wales trunk road that links Cowra and Albury at a distance of 338 kilometres. ...

Latest news on the Hume Highway dual carriageway construction

• Coolac Bypass, RTA
• Coolac bypass better projects, RTA
• Hume Highway, Abigroup
• Coolac bypass, Abigroup
• Sheahan bridge duplication, RTA
• Hume Highway duplication package, RTA
• Southern Alliance
• Northern Alliance
• Hume Highway to receive $785m upgrade: Vaile
• Liberals to finish Hume duplication by 2012
• QBR (Queensland Business review) Coalition to complete duplication of Hume Highway by 2012
• ALP to fix NSW rural transport corridors

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. These are intended to be duplicated by 2012.^[3] National Truck Driver Memorial at Tarcutta Tarcutta is a small town located 438km south-west of Sydney on the Hume Highway in New South Wales, Australia. ... HMAS Otways hull on display at Holbrook, New South Wales. ... Woomargama is a village community in the south east part of the Riverina. ...

F5 widening

The freeway portion of the Hume Highway between the Roden Cutler interchange^[4] (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. Arthur Roden Cutler VC Sir Arthur Roden Cutler VC AK KCMG KCVO CBE (May 24, 1916 – February 22, 2002) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. ... 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, New South Wales, Australia. ... The N7 road is a National Primary Route in the Republic of Ireland, connecting Dublin to Limerick. ...

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.^[5] 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.^[6]

The section between Brooks Road and Narellan Road has suffered from extreme congestion in peak times since 2001.^{[citation needed]} By 2007, the situation had worsened such that it is usually congested from early morning to late evening every day.^[7] 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^[8] 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,^[9][10] with construction to be completed by the end of 2009.^[11][12] Look up Campaign in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The City of Campbelltown is a Local Government Area in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, located about 55 km south west of the Sydney central business district. ...

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. 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. March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

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. HMAS Otways hull on display at Holbrook, New South Wales. ...

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. 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. 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. The Great Dividing Range, also known as the Eastern Highlands, is Australias most substantial mountain range. ... For other uses, see Outback (disambiguation). ... Mount Buffalo is a mountain plateau in Victoria (Australia), 200 km northeast of Melbourne. ... For other uses, see Ned Kelly (disambiguation). ...

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. 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. Image File history File links Hume_Fwy_(VIC)_Distances. ... Image File history File links Hume_Fwy_(VIC)_Distances. ... For other uses, see Murray River (disambiguation). ... March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era 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. ...

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. For other uses, see Wool (disambiguation). ...

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. The Federal Highway is a short highway in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory in Australia. ...

Speed limits on the Hume Highway are as follows:

New South Wales Arterial standard (with traffic signals)

• Parramatta Road Summer Hill-Centenary Drive South Strathfield: 60 km/h
• Centenary Drive - Brunker Road Greenacre: 70 km/h
• Brunker Road - Hector Street Bass Hill: 60 km/h
• Hector St - Woodville Road: 70 km/h
• Woodville Road - M5 tollway Casula: 60 km/h
• M5 - Camden Valley Way Prestons: 70 km/h
• Camden Valley Way - freeway on-ramp at Glenfield: 80 km/h

Freeway standard (no traffic signals)

• Glenfield - Coolac dual carriageways: 110 km/h
• Coolac: Variable speed limit due to roadworks (Coolac bypass opens sometime in 2009 and will be 110 km/h [7] [8])
• Coolac - Sheahan Bridge dual carriageway: 110 km/h
• Sheahan Bridge and approaches: 100 km/h (when the Sheahan Bridge duplication opens sometime in 2009, the speed limit will be 110 km/h [9])
• Sheahan Bridge - Sturt Hwy interchange dual carriageways: 110 km/h
• Sturt Hwy interchange - Olympic Highway interchange:
  • Dual carriageway sections: 110 km/h [10]
  • Rural single carriageway (2-3 lanes) sections: Variable speed limit due to roadworks (an extra 67 kilometres of these, will be turned into dual carriageway by December 2009 and will be 110 km/h [11] [12])
  • The towns of Tarcutta, Holbrook, Woomargama and Mullengandra 50 km/h (Tarcutta, Holbrook and Woomargama bypass construction to commence in 2010 and will not be bypassed until construction finishes in 2012, then it will be 110km/h) [13].
  • Olympic Highway interchange to New South Wales / Victoria border (Albury Bypass): 110 km/h [14].

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• New South Wales / Victoria border - Beveridge: 110 km/h
• Beveridge - Western Ring Road: 100 km/h

Arterial standard (with traffic signals)

• Hume Highway as Sydney Road from Craigieburn - Melbourne:
  • Craigieburn - Campbellfield: 80 km/h
  • Campbellfield - Melbourne: 60 km/h

Speed limits above that refer to metropolitan areas refer to the old alignment of the Hume Highway. Sydney Road, Brunswick, looking south to the central business district Sydney Road is a major thouroughfare in the northern suburbs of Brunswick and Coburg in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

Despite the comparatively light traffic (in rural areas), the good-quality road, the absence of significant traffic hazards, and usually good driving conditions, the speed limits of 110 kilometres per hour on the dual carriageway and variable speed limits because of dual carriageway construction on the remaining single carriageway sections (except for Tarcutta, Holbrook and Woomargama [15]) and vigorously policed and unbendingly enforced, including through the use of fixed and mobile speed cameras.^{[citation needed]}

Fixed speed cameras locations

In Sydney: 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.

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. The three remaining towns on the Hume Highway yet to be bypassed in 2012 will be: This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Queen Street in Campbelltown Campbelltown is a suburb and the CBD (central business district) of the City of Campbelltown, in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, located about 44 km south west of the Sydney central business district. ... Camden in New South Wales, Australia, is a historic town and Sydney Suburb 65 km southwest of the Sydney CBD and near the city of Campbelltown. ... Picton is a small town (3604 in 1996) in New South Wales, Australia, in the Wollondilly region in foothills of the Southern Highlands, 80 kilometres south west of Sydney. ... Mittagong (postcode: 2575) is a town with a population of approximately 6,000 in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. ... Berrima is a village in the Southern Highlands district on the old Hume Highway between Canberra and Sydney, Australia, and is now popular with visitors from both cities, especially on weekends. ... Mural at Marulan which says that it lies on the 150 meridian Marulan (34°42′S 150°00′E) is a town in New South Wales near Goulburn. ... Location of Goulburn in New South Wales (red) Court house opened 1887 Goulburn is a provincial cathedral city in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Goulburn Mulwaree Council. ... Gunnings main street Gunning is a town on the Hume Highway, between Goulburn and Yass in the Monaro district of southern New South Wales, Australia, about 260km south-west of Sydney and 50km north-west of the national capital, Canberra. ... Yass is a town in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Yass Valley Shire. ... 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 villiage in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia and in Yass Valley Shire. ... Jugoing is a village community 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 is a town located along the Murrumbidgee River and Muniong and Yambla Mountain ranges, 390 km south-west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... Albury is a city in New South Wales, Australia, located on the Hume Highway on the Northern side of the Murray River. ... 2012 (MMXII) will be a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• Tarcutta
• Woomargama
• Holbrook

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. National Truck Driver Memorial at Tarcutta 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. ... HMAS Otways hull on display at Holbrook, New South Wales. ... Wodonga () is a small city on the Victorian side of the border with New South Wales, 300 kilometres north-east of Melbourne, Australia. ... Chiltern is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on the Hume Highway, between Wangaratta and Wodonga, in the Indigo Shire. ... Wangaratta is a cathedral city of about 19,000 people in the northeast of Victoria, Australia, about 230 km (150 mi) from Melbourne along the Hume Highway, with Benalla 45 km (25 mi) to the southwest, and Albury-Wodonga 72 km (40 mi) to the northeast. ... Benalla (36°33′S 145°58′E) is an agricultural town of about 12,000 people on the Hume Freeway in north-eastern Victoria, Australia, about 40 kilometres south of Wangaratta. ... Euroa (postcode: 3666, 36°45′S 145°34′E) is a town in the Strathbogie Shire in North-East Victoria, Australia. ... Violet Town is a town in Victoria, Australia. ... Location of Seymour in Victoria (red) Seymour (Population 7000) is a township located in the Mitchell Shire in the state of Victoria, Australia and is located 97 kilometres to the north of Melbourne. ... Broadford is a small town in central Victoria, Australia. ... This article is about Craigieburn in Melbourne, Australia. ...

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. It retains a lot of character with many historic buildings of interest remaining. There is an aviation museum at nearby Narellan. Urban sprawl has made Camden part of the Sydney metropolitan area. Camden in New South Wales, Australia, is a historic town and Sydney Suburb 65 km southwest of the Sydney CBD and near the city of Campbelltown. ... Narellan is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ...

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. 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. Mittagong (postcode: 2575) is a town with a population of approximately 6,000 in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. ...

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.^[13] 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 also the setting for "Tulip Time", a Spring celebration where over 100,000 tulips and 25,000 flowers are planted in the town centre. Bowral Station 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 called The Don, was an Australian cricketer, administrator and writer on the game, generally acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time. ...

The population swells during winter when, thousands of visitors book into local hotels and B&Bs to enjoy romantic fires and secluded winter getaways. 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. Tourists of various nationalities chatting over breakfast at a B&B in Quebec City. ...

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. 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. Moss Vale is a town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. ...

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

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. For other uses, see Canberra (disambiguation). ...

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

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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. 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. It ran to Bungonia, via Wingello, Tallong, and the southern outskirts of Marulan, all, except Wingello, being located in Argyle county, along with Goulburn. Counties and their divisions called parishes never became serious units of government in New South Wales, but they are still used in land administration. Major General Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales Major-General Lachlan Macquarie CB (31 January 1762[1] – 1 July 1824), British military officer and colonial administrator, served as Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821 and had a leading role in the social, economic and architectural development... Sutton Forest () is a small village in the Southern Highlands, 5 km southwest of Moss Vale on the Illawarra Highway in Wingecarribee Shire. ... Illawarra Highway connects Wollongong to NSW Southern Highlands. ... 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 Wales. ... Parish Hall of St. ...

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. 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. 1838 map of Victoria and New South Wales showing towns, major rivers and the limits of the Colony at the time. ...

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. 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^[14] 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. 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. Towrang is a village in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, in Goulburn Mulwaree Council. ... Towrang is a village in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, in Goulburn Mulwaree Council. ... The Wollondilly River is located in the State of New South Wales, Australia. ... Hamilton Hume Hamilton Hume (19 June 1797-19 April 1873) was an Australian 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. Lansdowne Bridge over Prospect Creek on the Hume Highway at Lansdowne. ...

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 [16]. AusLink is an Australian Government land transport funding program, established in June 2004 and administered by the Department of Transport and Regional Services. ...

Goulburn

Goulburn is the first city along the Hume Highway from Sydney. 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. Location of Goulburn in New South Wales (red) Court house opened 1887 Goulburn is a provincial cathedral city in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Goulburn Mulwaree Council. ...

13 km south of Goulburn along the Hume Highway is the interchange with the Federal Highway which connects to Canberra and the Snowy Mountains. 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 ^{[citation needed]}. Lake George in August 2005 with the Federal Highway on the left. ... For other uses, see Canberra (disambiguation). ... The Big Merino The Big Merino is located in Goulburn NSW, Australia. ... Species See text. ... Service station is a term with different meanings in different parts of the world: In the United States and Canada, it refers to a filling station that also offers such services as oil change and mechanical repairs to automobiles. ...

Gunning

Gunning's 19th century main street was built very wide, for the time of horse and bullock-drawn wagons. 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. Gunnings main street Gunning is a town on the Hume Highway, between Goulburn and Yass in the Monaro district of southern New South Wales, Australia, about 260km south-west of Sydney and 50km north-west of the national capital, Canberra. ...

Yass

Yass has an impressive and historic main street, with well-preserved 19th century verandah-post pubs (mostly converted to other uses}. It is popular with tourists, some from Canberra and others taking a break from the Hume Highway. 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. Yass is a town in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Yass Valley Shire. ... For other uses, see Canberra (disambiguation). ...

Coolac

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. 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.^[15][16] Image File history File links Tuckerbox_1926. ... Image File history File links Tuckerbox_1926. ... The Dog on the Tuckerbox The earlier monument photographed in 1926 Bullock team at the unveiling of the monument in 1932 The Dog on the Tuckerbox is an Australian historical monument and tourist attraction, located at Snake Gully, five miles (8 km) from Gundagai, New South Wales. ... Coolac is a village in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia in Gundagai Shire. ...

Gundagai

At Snake Gully, adjacent to the highway north of Gundagai is the "Dog on the Tuckerbox". 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 Dog on the Tuckerbox The earlier monument photographed in 1926 Bullock team at the unveiling of the monument in 1932 The Dog on the Tuckerbox is an Australian historical monument and tourist attraction, located at Snake Gully, five miles (8 km) from Gundagai, New South Wales. ...

The highway bypassed Gundagai in 1977 with the completion of the Sheahan Bridge over the Murrumbidgee River. 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 [17]. 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 will commence sometime in late-2007 for a second bridge on the Gundagai side of the Sheahan Bridge. [18] [19] Gundagai is a town located along the Murrumbidgee River and Muniong and Yambla Mountain ranges, 390 km south-west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... The Murrumbidgee River is a major river in the state of New South Wales, Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory. ...

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. 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 Sturt Highway, outside of Gawler, South Australia. ... 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, outside of Gawler, South Australia. ... Wagga Wagga (pronounced wogga wogga, informally called Wagga) is a city in New South Wales, Australia. ... Mildura is a locality in northwestern Victoria, Australia. ... For other uses, see Adelaide (disambiguation). ...

Tarcutta

National Truck Driver Memorial at Tarcutta

Tarcutta, is one of the three remaining towns yet to be bypassed until 2012. 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. There is a memorial to truck drivers who have died on the local stretch of the Hume Highway. Download high resolution version (1200x800, 243 KB)National truck driver (truckies) memorial at Tarcutta on the Hume Highway, New South Wales, Australia. ... Download high resolution version (1200x800, 243 KB)National truck driver (truckies) memorial at Tarcutta on the Hume Highway, New South Wales, Australia. ... National Truck Driver Memorial at Tarcutta Tarcutta is a small town located 438km south-west of Sydney on the Hume Highway in New South Wales, Australia. ... National Truck Driver Memorial at Tarcutta Tarcutta is a small town located 438km south-west of Sydney on the Hume Highway in New South Wales, Australia. ...

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. It is notorious for its speed traps.^{[citation needed]} 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. 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. Northern Section Southern Section HMAS Otways hull on display at Holbrook, New South Wales. ... National Truck Driver Memorial at Tarcutta 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. ... Norman Douglas Holbrook Norman Holbrook (born 9 July 1888 Southsea, Hampshire; died Midhurst, Sussex 3 July 1976) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. ... HMAS Otway (S59) was an Oberon class submarine laid down by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Greenock in Scotland on 29 June 1965, launched on 29 November 1966 and commissioned on 23 April 1968. ... HMAS Otways hull on display at Holbrook, New South Wales. ... Traffic lights will sometimes differ where there are several lanes of traffic. ... A pedestrian at the intersection of Alinga Street and Northbourne Avenue, Canberra, Australia A pedestrian is a person travelling on foot, whether walking or running. ... This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre. ... Western Ring Road is a freeway in Melbourne connecting the northern suburbs and the western suburbs to interstate freeways. ... The Sydney Orbital Network is a 110-km motorway ring-road in the city of Sydney, Australia. ...

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. 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 [20] [21]. Table Top is a large community in the south east part of the Riverina. ...

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, 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 [22] by the Hume Highway. The population of Albury-Wodonga is approaching 80,000. Albury is a city in New South Wales, Australia, located on the Hume Highway on the Northern side of the Murray River. ... Hamilton Hume Hamilton Hume (19 June 1797-19 April 1873) was an Australian explorer. ... William Hilton Hovell (April 26, 1786 - November 9, 1875) was an English explorer of Australia. ... For other uses, see Murray River (disambiguation). ... Wodonga () is a small city on the Victorian side of the border with New South Wales, 300 kilometres north-east of Melbourne, Australia. ... March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

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.^[17] 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.

Source:

• RTA Albury Wodonga Hume Freeway project
• Albury Wodonga Hume Freeway project

Wangaratta

Wangaratta is, after Wodonga, the largest centre in northeast Victoria (population 17,000). 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. Wangaratta is a cathedral city of about 19,000 people in the northeast of Victoria, Australia, about 230 km (150 mi) from Melbourne along the Hume Highway, with Benalla 45 km (25 mi) to the southwest, and Albury-Wodonga 72 km (40 mi) to the northeast. ...

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 on the Hume Highway, between Wangaratta and Wodonga, in the Indigo Shire. ...

Benalla

A passable section of "Sydney Road" in the shire of Benalla, 1914.

Benalla is a large town located just off the Hume Freeway between Melbourne and Wangaratta. 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. Download high resolution version (990x715, 109 KB)Sydney Road, now known as the Hume Highway, in the shire of Benalla, 1914. ... Download high resolution version (990x715, 109 KB)Sydney Road, now known as the Hume Highway, in the shire of Benalla, 1914. ... Benalla (36°33′S 145°58′E) is an agricultural town of about 12,000 people on the Hume Freeway in north-eastern Victoria, Australia, about 40 kilometres south of Wangaratta. ... Benalla (36°33′S 145°58′E) is an agricultural town of about 12,000 people on the Hume Freeway in north-eastern Victoria, Australia, about 40 kilometres south of Wangaratta. ... For the racehorse trainer, see Ed Dunlop. ... The Bridge over the River Kwai Map of the Burma Railway The Burma Railway, also known also as the Death Railway, the Thailand-Burma Railway and similar names, is a 415 km (258 mi) railway between Bangkok, Thailand and Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar), built by the Empire of Japan during... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

Euroa

Euroa is famous for a Ned Kelly bank robbery. The town is located on the Seven Ponds and has pretty gardens and a number of attractive 19th century buildings. Euroa (postcode: 3666, 36°45′S 145°34′E) is a town in the Strathbogie Shire in North-East Victoria, Australia. ... For other uses, see Ned Kelly (disambiguation). ...

Seymour

The Hume Highway bypass of Seymour opened in December 1982. Seymour remains on the Goulburn Valley Highway. The town is in the rich Goulburn Valley which supports the local vineyards. The large Puckapunyal military base is located west of Seymour. 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. Location of Seymour in Victoria (red) Seymour (Population 7000) is a township located in the Mitchell Shire in the state of Victoria, Australia and is located 97 kilometres to the north of Melbourne. ... The Goulburn Valley Highway / Freeway (M39/A39/B340) is located in Victoria, Australia and the section north beyond the Hume Freeway is part of the Melbourne to Brisbane National Highway (together with Hume Freeway) and is the main link between these two cities as well as a major link between... Puckapunyal ( ) is an Australian Army base in north-central Victoria. ...

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. Completion of the grade-separation interchange is expected to be 2009 [23] [24] [25] [26] [27]. AusLink is an Australian Government land transport funding program, established in June 2004 and administered by the Department of Transport and Regional Services. ...

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. 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. ... This article is about Craigieburn in Melbourne, Australia. ... Traffic lights will sometimes differ where there are several lanes of traffic. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Craigburn Bypass, also known as the hume freeway (m31), is a 10 kilo freway bypass of the currant day traffic cloged hume highway between cambellfild and craigburn in melbournes nourthern suburbs the bypass starts at the western ring road thomastown and than ends and joins the hume freeway north of... Western Ring Road is a freeway in Melbourne connecting the northern suburbs and the western suburbs to interstate freeways. ...

See also

• Old Hume Highway
• Highways in Australia
• Highways in Victoria
• List of highways in New South Wales

The Old Hume Highway may be described as any part of an earlier route of the Hume Highway, which traverses Victoria and New South Wales between the cities of Melbourne and Sydney in Australia. ... This is a list of highways in Australia, listed alphabetically along with its route number and location. ... Highways of eastern Victoria The Highways in Victoria are the highest density in any state in Australia due to its historical, population and economic reasons. ... New South Wales Highways of New South Wales This is a list of highways in New South Wales, Australia. ...

References

• Hume Highway to receive $785m upgrade: Vaile
• Libs to finish Hume duplication by 2012
• QBR (Queensland Business review) Coalition to complete duplication of Hume Highway by 2012
• ALP to fix NSW rural transport corridors
• Vaile exhorts colleagues to keep up the fight to win