Old Hume Highway
Old Hume Highway Victoria | |
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A section of the Old Hume Highway, now known as the Yass Valley Way, across the Yass River, New South Wales | |
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Opened | November 1842 |
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The Old Hume Highway, an urban and rural
History
Since the time of the first track, the route of what is now the
In both Victoria and New South Wales since 2013, 100% of the Hume Highway has been upgraded to at least
Many of the superseded sections of the Hume Highway are of
Major deviations
The section of the Hume Highway between the Cross Roads, at Prestons on Sydney's southwestern fringe, and the Medway Rivulet near Berrima, was completely superseded in the period 1973–1992 by a new route built as a freeway.
Most of the highway route between Breadalbane, west of
The Breadalbane–Derringullen Creek deviation is in most places quite close to the previous highway, most of which remains for local use. This section also included the abandoning of the route over the Mundoonen Range which, when it was rebuilt in the 1960s, was designed to be duplicated.
Between Conroys Gap and
The current route of the highway between
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 Bowna and terminates at Guinea Street, Albury (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). On the southern side at Bowna Waters the old route terminates at dead end. On the northern side the old route is now a road that services local farms, including Willow Park, with the remainder of the old route now being part of private property and inaccessible to road traffic. Parts of the old route are visible when the waters of Lake Hume are low from the air and satellite imagery (Google Map)
Major sections, which have now been bypassed
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New South Wales
- Camden Valley Way (formerly )
28-kilometre (17 mi) stretch between the Cross Roads, south of Liverpool and Camden - Remembrance Drive (Old Hume Highway) (formerly )
70-kilometre (43 mi) stretch between Camden and Aylmerton and between Aylmerton and the Medway Rivulet (part of ), near Berrima - Old Hume Highway
10-kilometre (6.2 mi) stretch throughGoulburn - Cullerin Road
23-kilometre (14 mi) stretch between Breadalbane and the foot of the Mundoonen Range, including through Gunning - Yass Valley Way
17-kilometre (11 mi) stretch through Yass and intersecting with the Barton Highway - The section of road bypassed by the Tumblong deviation, between Tumblong and Hillas Creeks
- Former 15km Hume Highway route through Albury.
Victoria
- Hume Highway & Melbourne Road
4-kilometre (2.5 mi) stretch throughWodonga - Wangaratta Road , Old Hume Highway, Winton–Glenrowan Road, Benalla–Winton Road & Baddaginnie–Benalla Road
6-kilometre (3.7 mi) stretch betweenBenalla - Euroa Main Road
6-kilometre (3.7 mi) stretch throughEuroa - Seymour–Tooborac Road , Goulburn Valley Highway and Seymour–Avenel Road
23-kilometre (14 mi) stretch between Avenel and Seymour - Wallan
See also
- Highways in New South Wales
- Highways in Victoria
- Highways in Australia
References
- ISBN 978-0-330-36493-5.
- ^ "History of the Hume Highway duplication".
- ^ "Hume Highway Southern Alliance Project". Esvc000479.bne102u.server-web.com. 14 January 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
- ^ "Hume Highway duplication between Sturt Highway and Holbrook". Northern Hume Alliance. Archived from the original on 20 November 2008. Retrieved 23 October 2008.
- ^ "Hume Highway duplication package". Roads & Traffic Authority. Archived from the original on 7 October 2008. Retrieved 23 October 2008.
External links
- Media related to Former alignments of the Hume Highway at Wikimedia Commons