Barrier Highway –New South Wales | |
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Highway sign, Yunta | |
Coordinates | |
General information | |
Type | Highway |
Length | 1,012 km (629 mi) [1] |
Gazetted | August 1928 (NSW, as Main Road 8) [2] |
Route number(s) | A32 (1998/2013–present) |
Former route number | National Route 32 (1955–1998/2013) |
Major junctions | |
West end | Horrocks Highway Giles Corner, South Australia |
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East end | Mitchell Highway Nyngan, New South Wales |
Location(s) | |
Region | Yorke and Mid North, Far North, [3] Far West |
Major settlements | Saddleworth, Burra, Peterborough, Yunta, Broken Hill, Wilcannia, Cobar |
Highway system | |
Barrier Highway is a highway in South Australia [4] and New South Wales, and is designated part of route A32. The name of the highway is derived from the Barrier Ranges, an area of moderately high ground in the far west of New South Wales, through which the highway traverses.
Barrier Highway branches off Horrocks Highway at Giles Corner, between Riverton and Tarlee and heads northeast, crossing the border into New South Wales and passing through Broken Hill. It continues further east to Wilcannia where it crosses the Darling River, past Cobar to eventually end in Nyngan, where it joins Mitchell Highway. The area traversed by the highway is remote and very sparsely settled.
The passing of the Main Roads Act of 1924 [5] through the Parliament of New South Wales provided for the declaration of Main Roads, roads partially funded by the State government through the Main Roads Board, later the Department of Main Roads, and now Transport for NSW. Barrier Highway was declared (as Main Road No. 8) on 8 August 1928, from the intersection with North-Western Highway (today Mitchell Highway) in Nyngan, via Cobar, Willcannia, and Broken Hill, to the border with South Australia; [2] with the passing of the Main Roads (Amendment) Act of 1929 [6] to provide for additional declarations of State Highways and Trunk Roads, this was amended to State Highway 8 in April 1929.
The highway was fully sealed in October 1972. [7]
The passing of the Roads Act of 1993 [8] through the Parliament of New South Wales, updated road classifications and the way they could be declared within New South Wales. Under this act, Barrier Highway today retains its declaration as Highway 8, from Nyngan to the state border with South Australia. [9]
Barrier Highway was signed as National Route 32 across its entire length in 1955. With both states' conversion to their newer alphanumeric systems in 1998 and 2013, its former route number was updated to A32 for the highway within South Australia in 1998, and within New South Wales in 2013. [10]
State | LGA [11] | Location [1] [12] | km [1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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South Australia | Clare and Gilbert Valleys | Giles Corner | 0 | 0.0 | Horrocks Highway (B82) – Tarlee, Auburn | Western terminus of highway and route A32 |
Saddleworth | 17.6 | 10.9 | Saddleworth Road (B84 east) – Marrabel, Eudunda | Concurrency with route B84 | ||
18.3 | 11.4 | Saddleworth Road (B84 west) – Auburn, Port Wakefield | ||||
Goyder | Hanson | 56.9 | 35.4 | Farrell Flat Road – Farrell Flat, Clare | ||
Burra | 71.6 | 44.5 | Goyder Highway (B64 east) – Morgan, Waikerie | Concurrency with route B64 | ||
78.4 | 48.7 | Goyder Highway (B64 west) – Spalding, Crystal Brook | ||||
Hallett | 102 | 63 | Wilkins Highway (B78 west) – Jamestown Jessie Street (east) – Hallett | |||
Peterborough | Ucolta | 156 | 97 | Petersburg Road (B79) – Peterborough, Wilmington, Port Augusta | ||
157 | 98 | Crystal Brook–Broken Hill railway line | ||||
Pastoral Unincorporated Area | Yunta | 227 | 141 | Yunta–Waukaringa Road – Waukaringa | ||
Bindarrah | 339 | 211 | Crystal Brook–Broken Hill railway line | |||
Cockburn | 373 | 232 | ||||
State border | 377 | 234 | South Australia – New South Wales border | |||
New South Wales | Broken Hill | Broken Hill | 423 | 263 | Brookfield Avenue, to Silverton Road (northwest) – Silverton Galena Street (southeast) – Broken Hill | Roundabout |
425 | 264 | Williams Street (northeast) – Tibooburra Iodide Street (northwest) – Broken Hill | ||||
426 | 265 | Iodide Street (B79 southeast) – Wentworth, Mildura Argent Street (southwest) – Broken Hill | ||||
427 | 265 | Menindee Road – Menindee | ||||
Central Darling | Wilcannia | 620 | 390 | White Cliffs Road – White Cliffs | ||
621 | 386 | West Wilcannia Road (west) – Menindee West Tilpa Road (east) – Tilpa, Louth, Bourke | ||||
Darling River | 622 | 386 | Bridge over river | |||
Central Darling | Wilcannia | 641 | 398 | Cobb Highway (B75) – Ivanhoe, Hay, Echuca | ||
Cobar | Cobar | 882 | 548 | Kidman Way (B87 north) – Bourke | Concurrency with route B87 | |
883 | 549 | Kidman Way (B87 south) – Hillston, Griffith | ||||
Bogan | Hermidale | 947 | 588 | Cobar railway line | ||
966 | 600 | Hermidale-Nymagee Road – Nymagee | ||||
Nyngan | 1,011 | 628 | Cobar railway line | |||
1,012 | 629 | Mitchell Highway (A32 southeast, B71 northwest) – Bourke, Charleville, Dubbo, Bathurst | Eastern terminus of highway Route A32 continues southwest along Mitchell Highway | |||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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