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Photo Gallery
New South Wales Road Photo Gallery:
National Highway 31 (Hume Highway)
The Hume Highway (also known as the Hume Freeway in
Victoria) is one of the most important roads in Australia,
the shortest route linking the country's two largest
cities - Sydney and Melbourne.
At the Sydney end of the Hume Highway, the last 10
km of road is also known as Liverpool Road, before it
terminates at an intersection with Parramatta Road,
in Summer Hill. At the Melbourne end, about 27 km north
of Melbourne at the suburb of Craigieburn, the Craigieburn
Bypass diverts the Hume Freeway (and the M31 designation)
off to the east of the original highway to terminate
with the Western and Metropolitan Ring Roads (M80) roughly
15 km north of Melbourne, which allows traffic to travel
from Geelong, Pakenham or suburban Melbourne non-stop
to Albury. The original alignment of the Hume Highway
is Sydney Road, which runs straight south into the heart
of Melbourne's CBD, bearing metropolitan route 55.
The Hume Highway travels through the states of New
South Wales and Victoria and got its name in the 1920s
during a nationwide highway naming scheme. Before this,
the road was known as the "Great Southern Road" in New
South Wales and "Sydney Road" in Victoria. In 1914 the
highway was declared a main road. The road was named
in 1929 after Hamilton Hume, a famous explorer in the
early 19th century who in conjunction with William Hovell
first found an overland route between Sydney and the
infant colonial outpost of Port Phillip, the original
name of Melbourne.
Over 80% is dual carriageway or motorway standard.
The principal towns through which it passes are Liverpool,
Campbelltown, Camden, Picton, Mittagong, Goulburn, Yass,
Gundagai, Holbrook and Albury in New South Wales; and
Wodonga, Wangaratta, Glenrowan, Benalla, Euroa, Seymour
and Wallan in Victoria.
The route forms the Remembrance Driveway which honours
war veterans, click
here for the Remembrance Driveway web site.
| Length
(NSW): |
567 km |
| Length
(VIC): |
291
km |
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