Bruxner Highway

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Bruxner Highway New South Wales

General information
Type	Highway
Length	419 km (260 mi)
Route number(s)	No shield (Boggabilla-Tenterfield) B60 (Tenterfield-Ballina)
Former route number	National Route 44 (1955-2013) (Tenterfield-Ballina)
Major junctions
West end	Newell Highway Boggabilla
	New England Highway Summerland Way for full list see major intersections
East end	Pacific Highway Ballina
Location(s)
Major settlements	Yetman Bonshaw Tenterfield Drake Tabulam Casino Lismore Alstonville

The Bruxner Highway at Drake.

The Bruxner Highway is one of the more obscure State highways in New South Wales, Australia.

The highway forms an east-west link from the Northern Rivers coast, across the Northern Tablelands in northern New South Wales, close to the border with Queensland. It is named in honour of Michael Bruxner, member for Northern Tablelands and Tenterfield from 1920 to 1962, leader of the New South Wales Country Party for almost all that period and Deputy Premier and Minister for Transport from 1932 to 1941.^[1]

Route

The Bruxner Highway^[2] starts at the junction with the Pacific Highway at Ballina and links Lismore, Casino, Mummulgum, Drake, Tenterfield, Bonshaw and Boggabilla where it terminates with the Newell Highway.

This state based road forms an important link between Ballina and Casino via Lismore. At Alstonville (near Ballina), a $90 million bypass has been allocated from the Federal Government at the cost of funds from the National Highway scheme. Further west from Tenterfield and the Bruxner Highway runs parallel and close to the Dumaresq River along with the Queensland border to Goondiwindi via Boggabilla and the Newell Highway.

National Route 44 was only signposted from the Pacific Highway near Ballina to the New England Highway in Tenterfield. It was intended that National Route 44 continued to Boggabilla to meet with the Newell Highway, however no on ground signage is evident in this region, and is unlikely to be signposted prior to the commissioning of the alphanumeric route numbering system.

In 2013, as part of the alphanumeric route scheme, B60 replaced National Route 44.

Major Intersections and Towns

Bruxner Highway
Westbound	Distance to Goondiwindi (km)	Distance to Tenterfield (km)	Eastbound
End Bruxner Highway continues as Newell Highway to Goondiwindi / St George / Brisbane	8	235	Start Bruxner Highway from Newell Highway
Moree, Dubbo, Melbourne Newell Highway
Boggabilla
North Star, Warialda Boggabilla-Warialda Road	24	219	North Star, Warialda Boggabilla-Warialda Road
Warialda, Inverell Warialda Road	68	175	Warialda, Inverell Warialda Road
Yetman	69	174	Yetman
Texas, Inglewood, Stanthorpe Inglewood-Texas Road	108	135	Texas, Inglewood, Stanthorpe Inglewood-Texas Road
Bonshaw	133	110	Bonshaw
Ashford, Inverell Inverell-Bonshaw Road	137	106	Ashford, Inverell Inverell-Bonshaw Road
End	238	5	Stanthorpe, Warwick, Brisbane New England Highway
Stanthorpe, Warwick, Brisbane New England Highway	238	5	Start duplexes with
Woodenbong Mount Lindesay Road	242	1	Woodenbong Mount Lindesay Road
Westbound	Distance to Tenterfield (km)	Distance to Ballina (km)	Eastbound
duplexes with	0	190	Tenterfield
Tamworth, Newcastle, Sydney New England Highway			Tamworth, Newcastle, Sydney New England Highway
Tenterfield			continues as
Drake	50	140	Drake
Tabulam	69	121	Tabulam
Baryulgil, Grafton Clarence Way	79	111	Baryulgil, Grafton Clarence Way
Bonalbo, Urbenville Woodenbong Road	81	109	Bonalbo, Urbenville Woodenbong Road
Mallanganee	88	102	Mallanganee
SYDNEY-BRISBANE RAIL LINE	125.5	64.5	SYDNEY-BRISBANE RAIL LINE
continues as	126.5	63.5	Grafton Summerland Way
Grafton Summerland Way	126.5	63.5	duplexes with
Casino	127	63	Casino
duplexes with	128	62	Kyogle, Woodenbong Summerland Way
Kyogle, Woodenbong Summerland Way	128	62	continues as
Kyogle, Nimbin Union Street	157	33	Kyogle, Nimbin Union Street
Clunes, Bangalow, Byron Bay Dawson Street	158	32	Lismore
Lismore	158	32	Clunes, Bangalow, Byron Bay Dawson Street
Wollongbar	174	16	Wollongbar
Alstonville	177	13	Alstonville
Start Bruxner Highway	184	6	End Bruxner Highway
Crossroads (clockwise from highway) Pacific Highway to Ballina, Gold Coast and Brisbane Pacific Highway to Grafton, Coffs Harbour and Sydney

References

↑ Aitkin, Don. "Bruxner, Sir Michael Frederick (1882 - 1970)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 2007-04-05.
↑ Bruxner Highway, Ozroads: the Australian Roads Website. Retrieved on 9 April 2010.

External links

Media related to Bruxner Highway at Wikimedia Commons

v t e Road infrastructure in Regional New South Wales

Motorways	Hume Motorway Hunter Expressway Pacific Motorway (Ewingsdale–Brisbane) Pacific Motorway (Sydney–Newcastle) Princes Motorway

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 Memorial Drive 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	Sydney Bypass

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Bruxner Highway

Route

Major Intersections and Towns

See also

References

External links