Road Photos & Information: New South Wales
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Sturt Highway (National Highway 20) (Decommissioned) |
Statistics:
- Length:
598 km
- Eastern Terminus:
Hume Highway (NH31) at Tarcutta
- Western Terminus:
NSW-Vic border at Buronga
- Miscellaneous:
Continues as Sturt Highway (NH-A20) into Victoria
- Suburbs, Towns
& Localities along route: Tarcutta, Wagga Wagga,
Narranderra, Hay, Balranald, Euston and Buronga
Route Numbering:
- Multiplexed With:
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- Former:
- Decommissioned: 2013
- Road Authority Internal Classification: HW14 1
General Information:
The Sturt Highway is 2 lane rural highway standard
for most of its length and is named after Charles Sturt, who explored
south western New South Wales, the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers and
also parts of the deserts of central Australia in the 1820s and 1830s. 1
The present Sturt Highway developed as a track
along the bank of the Murrumbidgee River linking cattle runs in the
1840s. 1
Originally the area of the route was the territory
of the Wiradjuri Aboriginal people, in whose language Wagga Wagga means
'place of crows'. 1
The Sturt Hwy is multiplexed with the following
routes:
- Newell Highway (NH39) at Narranderra for 1
kilometre
- Olympic Highway (NR41) at Wagga Wagga for 3
kilometres
- Kidman Way (SR87) at Darlington point for 200
metres
History: 1
- 1929: The road from Wagga Wagga to Hay was
proclaimed as a Trunk Road
- 1930: The road from Wagga Wagga to Hay was named
the Sturt Trunk Road in commemoration of Sturt's expedition down the
Murrumbidgee River
- 1933: The road from Sydney to Adelaide through
Wagga Wagga was proclaimed the Sturt Highway. The new highway comprised
what had previously been a section of the Monaro Highway (now the Snowy
Mountains Highway) from Lower Tarcutta to Wagga Wagga. The road along
the south bank of the Murrumbidgee River from Wagga Wagga to Hay and a
portion of the Mid Western Highway from Hay to the South Australian
border.
- 1940: Yanko Creek Bridge at Narranderra was
constructed
- 1941: The current Poisoned Waterholes Creek
Bridge (8 km east of Narranderra) constructed, replacing a timber
bridge built in 1908.
- 1942: The Bullenbong Creek Bridge constructed
(43 km west of Wagga Wagga)
- 1954: The Yanko Creek bridge was lengthened
- 1962: The Sturt Highway was completely sealed
providing a route through to Adelaide.
- 1973: The widening of Bullenbong Ck Bridge
completed, which included changes to kerbs and railings. Also widening
of Poisoned Waterholes Creek Bridge.
- 1993: The Yanko Creek bridge was widened
1 Roads and Traffic Authority
Last updated: 16-Feb-2019 15:55
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