Road Photos & Information: New South Wales
  Mitchell Highway (National Route 71) - Former Alignment (Decommissioned)

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The Mitchell Highway, named after Major Thomas Mitchell, who was Surveyor-General of New South Wales in the 1820s and explored much of inland New South Wales and Victoria.

The route consists of typical NSW rural highway standard, undivided single carriageway.

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This page covers the former Mitchell Hwy alignment.

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Lift Span Bridge:
Old lift span bridge over the Darling River at Bourke, September 2009.

Image © Richard Wardle

Lift Span Bridge:
Old lift span bridge over the Darling River at Bourke, September 2009.

Image © Richard Wardle

1 Roads & Traffic Authority
2 Department of Main Roads, The Roadmakers, A History of Main Roads in New South Wales, ISBN 0 7240 0439 4
3 Department of Main Roads New South Wales , Main Road Journal, June 1956

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