Carnarvon Highway

Carnarvon Highway

Queensland
–New South Wales
Carnarvon Highway; Queensland–New South Wales
General information
Type	Highway
Length	698 km (434 mi)
Route number(s)	A7 (2004-present); (Rolleston-Roma); A55 (2004-present); (Roma-St George); National Route 46 (1997-present); (St George-QLD/NSW border);
Former; route number	National Route 55 (1983-1997)
Major junctions
North end	Dawson Highway; Rolleston, Queensland
	Warrego Highway; Moonie Highway; Balonne Highway; Castlereagh Highway; Barwon Highway;
South end	Gwydir Highway; Moree, New South Wales
Location(s)
Major settlements	Injune, Roma, Surat, St George, Mungindi
Highway system
	Highways in Australia; National Highway • Freeways in Australia; Highways in Queensland; ; Highways in New South Wales;

The Carnarvon Highway^[1] is a state highway of Queensland, Australia, linking Moree south of the NSW/QLD border, via the town of St George, eventually to the township of Rolleston. Formerly, north of Roma it was known as the Carnarvon Developmental Road.^[2] National Route 46 runs from Mungindi to the Castlereagh Highway just south of St George. From here, the A55 continues north, through St George and Surat to Roma. The A7 then continues north from Roma to Rolleston, which continues along the Dawson Highway and Gregory Highway to Emerald and Charters Towers.

It is the main access road to the Carnarvon National Park.

Route numbering[]

National Route 55 (NR55)^[3] 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Today, NR55 no longer exists, having been replaced by the alpha-numeric designation A55 within Queensland during 2004 and the alpha-numeric designation B55 within New South Wales in 2013. A7 replaced the northern section of the (former NR55) Carnarvon Highway between Rolleston and Roma with the section between Roma and just south of St George being the part designated as A55. National Route 46, extends from just south of St George to Mungindi. National Route 46 was decommissioned in New South Wales in 2013, with no replacement route designated.

NR55 signs were first erected in New South Wales between Gilgandra and Walgett in 1974. It had then been extended from Walgett to the Queensland border at Hebel in 1983 - 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 (62 mi) east from the northern end of route NR55 (Castlereagh Highway).

In 1997, NR55 was finally allocated as an extension of the Castlereagh Highway between the Queensland/New South Wales border and St George, with the former route along Carnarvon Highway to Moree replaced with National Route 46. With the change in alphanumeric route numbering in the mid-2000s, NR55 runs between just south of St George and Roma as A55, and was replaced with National Route 46 between St George and Mungindi, and the A7 between Roma and Rolleston.

List of towns on the Carnarvon Highway[]

Moree
Ashley
Garah
Mungindi
St George
Surat
Roma
Injune
Rolleston

Major intersections[]

State	LGA	Location^[4]	km^[4]	mi	Destinations	Notes
Queensland	Central Highlands	Rolleston	0	0.0	Dawson Highway (A7 / State Route 60) – Springsure, Moura, Blackwater	Route A7 continues west along Dawson Highway, south along Carnarvon Highway
	Maranoa	Roma	264	164	Warrego Highway (A2) – Mitchell	Concurrent with Warrego Highway (route A2) for 6km Southern terminus of route A7, northern terminus of route A55
		Roma	270	170	Warrego Highway (A2) – Miles, Brisbane
		Surat	344	214	Surat Developmental Road (State Route 87) – Meandarra
	Balonne	St George	450	280	Moonie Highway (State Route 49) – Dalby	Concurrent with State Route 49 for 10km
			460	290	Balonne Highway (State Route 49) – Mitchell, Cunnamulla	Concurrent with State Route 49 for 10km
			467	290	Castlereagh Highway (A55) – Dirranbandi, Hebel	Route A55 continues north-west along Carnarvon Highway, south along Castlereagh Highway Northern terminus of National Route 46
		Nindigully	504	313	Barwon Highway (State Route 85) – Goondiwindi
		Mungindi	577	359		Southern terminus of National Route 46
Queensland – New South Wales state border			578	359	Barwon River
New South Wales	Moree Plains	Mungindi	579	360
New South Wales	Moree Plains	Moree	698	434	Gwydir Highway (B76) – Goondiwindi, Narrabri, Collarenebri
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus Route transition

References[]

^ Carnarvon Highway Archived 2 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Ozroads: the Australian Roads Website. Retrieved 26 July 2008.^{[self-published source]}
^ Queensland Government - Department of Transport and Main Roads - Maps
^ National Route 55, Ozroads: the Australian Roads Website. Retrieved 26 July 2008.^{[self-published source]}
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Google (16 January 2017). "Rolleston to Moree" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 16 January 2017.

[1] Carnarvon Highway Archived 2 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Ozroads: the Australian Roads Website. Retrieved 26 July 2008.^{[self-published source]}

[Qgov-2] Queensland Government - Department of Transport and Main Roads - Maps

[3] National Route 55, Ozroads: the Australian Roads Website. Retrieved 26 July 2008.^{[self-published source]}

[gmap-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b Google (16 January 2017). "Rolleston to Moree" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 16 January 2017.

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Carnarvon Highway

Contents

Route numbering[]

List of towns on the Carnarvon Highway[]

Major intersections[]

See also[]

References[]