Carnarvon Highway

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Carnarvon Highway Carnarvon Developmental Road

Formerly
Length	696 km (432 mi)
Direction	North-South
From	Dawson Highway, Rolleston, Queensland
via	Injune, Roma, Surat, St George, Mungindi
To	Newell Highway / Gwydir Highway, Moree, New South Wales
Allocation	Rolleston - Roma: Roma - St George: St George - Moree:
Major junctions	Warrego Highway Moonie Highway Balonne Highway Castlereagh Highway Barwon Highway

Route Numbering

National Route 55 (NR55)^[2] 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Today, NR55 only covers 340km of the Castlereagh Highway, having been replaced by the alpha-numeric designation A55 within Queensland during 2004.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 runs between St George and Roma as A55, and was replaced with National Route 46 between St George and Moree, and the A7 between Roma and Rolleston.

List of towns on the Carnarvon Highway

References

^ Carnarvon Highway, Ozroads: the Australian Roads Website. Retrieved on 26 July 2008.
^ National Route 55, Ozroads: the Australian Roads Website. Retrieved on 26 July 2008.

Road infrastructure in Regional New South Wales

Freeways	Hume Freeway Pacific Motorway Southern Freeway Sydney–Newcastle Freeway

National highways	Barton Highway Federal Highway Hume Highway New England Highway Newell Highway Sturt Highway

Highways	Barrier Highway Bruxner Highway Carnarvon Highway Castlereagh Highway Cobb Highway Great Western Highway Gwydir Highway Illawarra Highway Kamilaroi Highway Kings Highway Mid-Western Highway Mitchell Highway Monaro Highway Murray Valley Highway Olympic Highway Oxley Highway Pacific Highway Princes Highway Riverina Highway Silver City Highway Snowy Mountains Highway

Local highways	Alpine Way Appin Road Barry Way Bathurst-Ilford Road Bells Line of Road Bucketts Way Burley Griffin Way Bylong Valley Way Camden Valley Way Castlereagh Highway Central Coast Highway Escort Way Fossickers Way Golden Highway Goldfields Way Goulburn-Oberon Road Henry Lawson Way Irrigation Way Kidman Way Lachlan Valley Way Newcastle Inner City Bypass O'Connell Road Old Hume Highway Picton Road Princes Highway Putty Road Remembrance Drive Summerland Way Thunderbolts Way Waterfall Way Wombeyan Caves Road Yass Valley Way

Proposals	Hunter Expressway Pacific Motorway Extension to Sydney Sydney Bypass

Road infrastructure in Queensland

Motorways	Bruce Highway Gateway Motorway Inner City Bypass Ipswich Motorway Logan Motorway Pacific Motorway Sunshine Motorway

National Highways	Barkly Highway Bruce Highway Cunningham Highway Gore Highway Landsborough Highway Leichhardt Highway New England Highway Warrego Highway

Highways	Balonne Highway Barwon Highway Brisbane Valley Highway Burnett Highway Bunya Highway Capricorn Highway Captain Cook Highway Carnarvon Highway Castlereagh Highway Centenary Highway D'Aguilar Highway Dawson Highway Donohue Highway Flinders Highway Gold Coast Highway Gregory Highway Isis Highway Kennedy Highway Leichhardt Highway Mary Valley Highway Mitchell Highway Moonie Highway Mount Lindesay Highway Mulligan Highway Outback Highway Palmerston Highway Peak Downs Highway Wide Bay Highway

Developmental Roads / Outback Tracks	Birdsville Track Burke Developmental Road Gregory Developmental Road Gulf Developmental Road Kennedy Developmental Road Savannah Way

Proposals	Bruce Highway (full grade separation extension) Townsville Ring Road Kenmore Bypass

Carnarvon Highway

Contents

Route Numbering

List of towns on the Carnarvon Highway

See also

References