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Oxley Highway (National Route 34) - Tamworth to Bendemeer - Former Alignment - Kootingal (Decommissioned) |
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National Route 34 is a rural highway that connects the coast with western New South Wales. It features several important towns along the route, and also crosses the Great Dividing Range.
The route is mostly single carriageway and undivided, except around Port Macquarie, Moonbi and Tamworth. At its eastern end, the route is quite windy because of the difficult terrain created by the Great Dividing Range, beyond Moonbi, the route generally passes through fairly flat terrain, except in the Coonabarabran area.
The Oxley Highway is named after explorer John Oxley, who was the first European to explore much of inland New South Wales in 1818. He crossed the southern end of the northern tableland and camped on the Apsley River in 1818 near the present Walcha.
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The former alignment through Kootingal has a couple of alignments. Firstly Back Kootingal Road (probably part of the old Great North Road) and Denman Avenue, and the other, Sandy Road and Denman Avenue.
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Denman Avenue Kootingal: Former highway alignment through Kootingal, looking south. September 2005. Image © Paul Rands |
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Denman Avenue Kootingal: Former highway alignment through Kootingal, looking south through the CBD. September 2005. Image © Paul Rands |
1 Department of Main Roads, Historical Roads of New South Wales, Oxley Highway, Extract from March 1953 issue of "Main Roads" journal.
2 Department of Main Roads, The Roadmakers, A History of Main Roads in New South Wales, ISBN 0 7240 0439 4
Last updated: 17-Dec-2019 0:55
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