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B76 | Gwydir Highway & Kamilaroi Highway (B76) |
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B76 is a rural highway in northern and western New South Wales, which connects the north coast with outback NSW. For the most part it's undivided, except in a handful of spots.
A section of the route runs parallel with the Gwydir River, and is named after Lord Gwydir by Alan Cunningham who crossed the river at Gravesend in 1827. The section between Walgett and Bourke is named after the Kamilaroi Aboriginal people of north western NSW. 2
Multiplexes along the route include:
History:
Click here for the former alignment in the Moree area
1 Roads &
Maritime Services, Schedule of Classified Roads and Unclassified Regional
Roads, August 2013
2 Roads
& Traffic Authority, Heritage and Conservation Register, Brewarrina
Bridge over Barwon River
3 Department of Main Roads, The Roadmakers, A History of Main
Roads in New South Wales, ISBN 0 7240 0439 4
4 National Library of Australia,
Catalogue, Construction
of Jackadgery Bridge, New South Wales, 1959 / Thiess Bros. Pty Ltd.
5 Roads
& Traffic Authority,
Annual Report 2000, November 2000, ISSN 1037-3276
6 Roads & Traffic Authority, Annual
Report 2002
7 Roads & Traffic Authority, Road
activity update, Northern NSW, May 2003
Last updated: 23-Dec-2019 10:43
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