Old Hume Highway
As Old Hume Highway , all road sections of the Hume Highway (N31) through the Australian states of Victoria and New South Wales between the cities of Melbourne and Sydney , which have been replaced by newer roads. In some places the route has been relocated several times since the opening of the first route between Sydney and Melbourne in November 1842.
history
Since the time of the first route, the Hume Highway has been the most important link between the two largest cities in Australia. Since 1960 the route has been gradually converted into a motorway. Where the original route was sufficiently flat and straight, it served as a carriageway in one direction and a carriageway was built next to it in the other direction. In some places, however, the original road had to be completely replaced by a new, four-lane road next to it, in other places the new route deviates by several kilometers from the old one.
In Victoria, the entire stretch of the Hume Highway was expanded to at least four lanes and is now called the Hume Freeway . In New South Wales, a 97% section of the route had been expanded to at least four lanes by December 2009. 283 km between Tarcutta and Berrima are four lanes and 130 km between Berrima and Sydney are designated as a freeway.
The remaining two-lane route sections were expanded in December 2009, with the exception of 20 km in the by- pass of Tarcutta, Holbrook and Woomargama . This last section is to be completed in 2012.
Many of the bypassed sections of the old Hume Highway are of historical interest and lead through small towns with old buildings that have since received a bypass. When the highway ran through these cities, they were busy and well-visited. Many of the old sections of the route are still the only access roads to these cities today. One leads z. B. by Yass and is now called Yass Valley Way .
Larger realignments
The section between Cross Roads in Preston in the southwest of the greater Sydney area and the Medway Rivulet near Berrima was completely re-routed as a freeway in the years 1973-1992.
Most of the highway between Breadalbane (west of Goulburn ) and Derringullen Creek (west of Yass) was replaced during 1994. This also includes bypassing the Cullerin Range . The previous route over the Cullerin Range was in turn a re-routing from 1920, which ran in parts along the abandoned railway line of the old Main Southern Railway . The railway line, in turn, was diverted to make it easier for heavily loaded steam freight trains to travel to Sydney.
The new route since 1994 comes close to the old highway (until 1920) in many places. Most of the sections of this old highway still serve as local connecting roads. The route over the Mundoonen Range , which was built in the 1960s with the stipulation of the later four-lane expansion, was bypassed by the new route from 1994.
Between Conroys Gap and Coolac , most of the old line was replaced by new, four-lane sections in 1983 and 1996. Some stretches, such as the one south of Connors Creek , were rebuilt with two lanes as early as 1979, with the earthworks for the other lane being carried out, which was then completed in 1994.
The current route of the highway between Tumblong and Tarcutta is now the third version of the route at this point. The first road led west of Tumblong along the Murrumbidgee River before it turned south over difficult terrain, crossed today's Sturt Highway and returned to today's route on Lower Tacutta Road . This route was replaced in December 1938 by a second version of the route east of the current route. The most important features of this section of the route were a narrow trench and a prestressed concrete arch bridge over Hillas Creek . This bridge has been preserved to this day and is now west of the highway near the junction with the Snowy Mountains Highway .
North of Albury , a larger section of the route was retraced in the 1930s, as the original route was flooded by the construction of Lake Hume on the Murray River . The new route begins in Bowna and ends on Guinea Street in Albury. The first part of the Riverina Highway east of Albury to today's Old Sydney Road was until then part of the Hume Highway. On either side of the old route, the road can now be seen disappearing into Lake Hume.
Old sections of the route
New South Wales
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Camden Valley Way
, 17 miles between Cross Roads, south of Liverpool and Camden -
Remembrance Drive (Old Hume Highway) ,, 70 km route between Camden and Aylmerton and between Aylmerton the Medway Rivulet (part of 79 ), at Berrima
- Old Hume Highway, 10 km through Goulburn
- Cullerin Road, 23 km stretch between Breadalbane and the foot of the Mundoonen Range, including the section through Gunning
- Yass Valley Way , 17 km route through Yass that the Barton Highway crosses
- The section between Tumblong and Hillas Creek, which was replaced by the Tumblong bypass
- Old stretch of the Hume Highway through Albury
Victoria
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Hume Highway C315 & Melbourne Road
4 km route through Wodonga -
Wangaratta Road C314 , Old Hume Highway , Winton - Glenrowan Road in Benalla - Winton Road C313 & Baddaginnie - Benalla Road
60 km stretch between Bowser and Baddaginnie. This section of the route runs through Wangaratta , Glenrowan & Benalla -
Euroa Main Road C312
6 km route through Euroa -
Seymour - Tooborac Road C384 , Goulburn Valley Highway
and Seymour - Avenel Road
23 km route through Avenel and Seymour
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Northern Highway
and Kilmore - Broadford Road C311
37 km route between Broadford and Wallan -
Sydney Road 7 miles between Craigieburn and Campbellfield
source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . Pp. 22, 25, 26, 27, 33, 34, 42, 45, 48, 49
Individual evidence
- ^ M. McGirr: Bypass - The Story of a Road . McMillan (2004)
- ^ Hume Highway Southern Alliance Project . Esvc000479.bne102u.server-web.com. January 14, 2010. Retrieved August 10, 2010.
- ^ Hume Highway duplication between Sturt Highway and Holbrook . Northern Hume Alliance. Archived from the original on November 20, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 23, 2008.
- ^ Hume Highway duplication package . Roads and Traffic Authority . Archived from the original on October 7, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 23, 2008.
