Gore Highway

Gore Highway
Basic data
Operator:	Dept. of Transport and Main Roads
Start of the street:	/ Leichhardt Highway 19 km north of Goondiwindi ( QLD ) ( 28 ° 24 ′  S , 150 ° 19 ′  E )
End of street:	Warrego Highway New England Highway Toowoomba ( QLD ) ( 27 ° 34 ′  S , 151 ° 56 ′  E )
Overall length:	204 km
States :	Queensland
Distances to various cities on the Gore Highway from Toowoomba

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

The Gore Highway is a trunk road in the southeast of the Australian state of Queensland . It connects the cities of Goondiwindi on the border with New South Wales and Toowoomba . Together with the Goulburn Valley Highway and the Newell Highway , it forms the national road connection from Melbourne to Brisbane . He bears the number NA39.

The highway runs through the Darling Downs region . The typical scenery along the road are pastures, orchards and grain fields. It was only elevated to a highway in February 1993 and thus took over this function for the Goondiwindi - Brisbane route from the Cunningham Highway . Toowoomba rerouted traffic between states to the Warrego Highway , replacing the old route through Warwick and the Cunninghams Gap , which had much steeper gradients. This made the journey, especially for freight traffic, easier and faster. Initially it was called State Road 85, until National Road 85 was created in February 1993, which divided the S85 into two parts. In 2005 it was given the number NA39.

The highest point on the highway is at 652 m, the lowest at 221 m.

Speed ​​limits

• Drayton (Toowoomba) - Westbrook (Toowoomba): 90 km / h
• Westbrook (Toowoomba) - Millmerran (25 km southwest): 100 km / h
• Millmerran - Goondiwindi: 110 km / h

source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ maps.bonzle.com - Gore Highway . Retrieved April 19, 2012.