New England Highway

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The New England Highway is a major inland highway in eastern Australia that links New South Wales and Queensland, serving as a key transport route through the New England region.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf highway
road in Australia
connectsCity Brisbane, Queensland
Newcastle, New South Wales
connectsRegion Darling Downs
Hunter Region
New England region
country Australia
crosses Great Dividing Range
followsRouteNumber A15 in New South Wales
A3 in Queensland
formerRouteNumber National Route 15
function intercity road transport route
major freight route
hasJunctionWith Cunningham Highway
Gwydir Highway
Newell Highway
Oxley Highway
Pacific Motorway
lanes mostly two-lane, with some multi-lane sections
length approximately 950 kilometres
locatedIn New South Wales
Queensland
eastern Australia
maintainedBy Department of Transport and Main Roads (Queensland)
Transport for NSW
namedAfter New England region of New South Wales
opened 1920s
parallelTo Newell Highway
Pacific Highway
partOf Australian National Highway network
National Land Transport Network
passesThrough Armidale, New South Wales
Glen Innes, New South Wales
Maitland, New South Wales
Muswellbrook, New South Wales
New England Tablelands
Scone, New South Wales
Singleton, New South Wales
Tamworth, New South Wales
Tenterfield, New South Wales
Toowoomba, Queensland
Warwick, Queensland
rural agricultural areas
roadSurface sealed
roadType inland highway
terminusNorth Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland
terminusSouth Hexham, New South Wales


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