Hume Highway

Hume Highway

Hume Freeway/Hume Motorway

New South Wales
–Victoria
M31 Hume Highway by-passing the Albury CBD, facing south (c. 2015)
General information
TypeHighway
Length840 km (522 mi)[1][2][3][4]
GazettedSeptember 1914 (VIC, as Main Road)[5]
July 1925 (VIC, as State Highway)[6]
August 1928 (NSW, as Main Road 2)[7]
Route number(s)
  • (2013–present)
    (Ashfield–Warwick Farm)
  • (2013–present)
    (Warwick Farm–Prestons)
  • (2013–present)
    (Prestons, NSW–Campbellfield, VIC)
Former
route number		see Former route allocations
Major junctions
Northeast end Great Western Highway
Ashfield, Sydney
 
Southwest end Metropolitan Ring Road
Western Ring Road Thomastown, Melbourne
Location(s)
Major settlementsBerrima, Goulburn, Yass, Gundagai, Albury–Wodonga, Wangaratta, Benalla, Seymour, Craigieburn
Highway system
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The Hume Highway, including the sections now known as the Hume Freeway and the Hume Motorway, is one of Australia's major inter-city national highways, running for 840 kilometres (520 mi) between Melbourne in the southwest and Sydney in the northeast.[1][2][3][4][8] Upgrading of the route from Sydney's outskirts to Melbourne's outskirts to dual carriageway was completed on 7 August 2013.[9]

From north to south, the road is called the Hume Highway in metropolitan Sydney, the Hume Motorway between the Cutler Interchange and Berrima, the Hume Highway elsewhere in New South Wales and the Hume Freeway in Victoria. It is part of the Auslink National Network and is a vital link for road freight to transport goods to and from the two cities as well as serving Albury–Wodonga and Canberra. It is therefore considered to be Australia's longest highway in terms of its dual-carriageway standard retaining the M, or motorway, alphanumeric.

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  5. ^ "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 7 October 1914. p. 4536. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
  6. ^ "Country Roads Board Victoria. Twelfth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1925". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 31 December 1925. p. 3.
  7. ^ "Main Roads Act, 1924-1927". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 110. National Library of Australia. 17 August 1928. pp. 3814–20. Archived from the original on 3 August 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
  8. ^ Dixon, Emma; Hay, Cassandra (6 September 2009). "Chapter 1. Introduction" (PDF). In Reviewed and approved by Hugh Swinbourne (ed.). Hume Highway Holbrook Bypass Environmental Assessment (Report). NSW Roads and Traffic Authority. p. 1. Retrieved 9 February 2013. The total length of the Hume Highway is 807 kilometres from Sydney to Melbourne
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