Carnarvon Highway

Infobox Australian Road
road_name = Carnarvon Highway
""'Carnarvon Developmental Road"
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The Carnarvon Highway [ [http://www.hotkey.net.au/~krool/photos/qld/carnarvon.html Carnarvon Highway] , "Ozroads: the Australian Roads Website". Retrieved on July 26 2008.] is a state highway of Queensland, linking Moree south of the NSW/QLD border, via the town of St George, eventually to the township of Rolleston. North of Roma it is known as the Carnarvon Developmental Road. National Route 46 runs from Moree to St George. The A7 then continues north from St George to Rolleston, which continues along the Dawson Highway and Gregory Highway to Emerald and Charters Towers.

It is the main access road to the Carnarvon National Park.

Route Numbering

National Route 55 (NR55) [ [http://www.ozroads.com.au/NSW/RouteNumbering/National%20Routes/55/nr55.htm National Route 55] , "Ozroads: the Australian Roads Website". Retrieved on July 26 2008.] was a former north-south route through central northern New South Wales and central Queensland, connecting the Newell Highway at Gilgandra with Walgett, St George, Roma, Emerald and Charters Towers. The highway was a strategic route to take B-doubles and other large vehicles (which cannot use the Bruce Highway) to the Queensland ports north of Rockhampton.

Today, NR55 only covers 340km of the Castlereagh Highway, having been replaced by the alpha-numeric designation A55 within Queensland during 2004. A7 has now replaced the NR55 route of the Carnarvon Highway between Rolleston and St George. National Route 46, newly signposted, now extends from St George to Moree.

NR55 signs were first erected in New South Wales between Gilgandra and Walgett. It had then been extended from Walgett to the Queensland border at Hebel, in the late 1970s - where it originally terminated.

NR55 first appeared in Queensland on the Gregory and Dawson Highways, between Emerald and Rolleston, during the early 1980s.

This is where for many years there was an oddity between the Queensland and New South Wales interpretation of the path that NR55 would take. It created the situation where the southern end of route NR55 (Carnarvon Highway) was located over 100 kilometres west from the northern end of route NR55 (Castlereagh Highway).

Eventually, NR55 was taken as an extension of the Castlereagh Highway between the Queenland/New South Wales border and St George. With the change in alphanumeric route numbering in the mid 2000s, NR55 was completly decomissioned along the entire stretch of the Carnarvon Highway and was replaced with National Route 46 between St George and Moree, and the A7 between St George and Rolleston.

List of towns on the Carnarvon Highway

*Moree
*Ashley
*Garah
*Mungindi
*St George
*Surat
*Roma
*Injune
*Rolleston

See also

*Highways in Australia
*List of highways in Queensland
*List of highways in New South Wales

References