Remembrance Drive

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Remembrance Drive

Australia New South Wales location map blank.svg
Red pog.svg
North end
Red pog.svg
South end
Coordinates
General information
TypeRoad
Length54.3 km (34 mi) [1]
Gazetted August 1928 (as Main Road 2) [2]
November 1984 (as Main Road 620) [3]
Former
route number
Australian state route 89.svg State Route 89 (1980–2013)
Australian national highway 31.svg National Highway 31 (1974-1980)
Australian national route 31.svg National Route 31 (1954-1974)
Major junctions
North end Camden Valley Way
Cawdor Road

Camden South, New South Wales
 
South endChurch Avenue
Alpine, New South Wales
Location(s)
Major suburbs Picton, Tahmoor, Bargo, Yanderra

Remembrance Drive is a rural road that links Camden and Alpine on the fringes of south-western Sydney, New South Wales. The road served as the former alignment of Hume Highway and now forms part of Old Hume Highway.

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Route

Remembrance Drive commences at the intersection of Camden Valley Way and Cawdor Road in Camden and heads south as a two-lane, single carriageway road through Camden, widening to a four-lane, dual-carriageway road at the intersection with Camden Bypass, narrowing soon after to a two-lane, single carriageway road at Camden Park, and twisting through the Razorback Range, passing through the towns of Picton, Tahmoor, Bargo and Yanderra, where it meets Hume Motorway for the first time. It continues in a southerly direction alongside the motorway and the Main Southern railway line through Yerrinbool until it eventually terminates at an interchange with Hume Motorway again at Alpine. [4] In addition to the former alignment of Hume Highway, it was also a part of Remembrance Driveway that spans from Sydney to Canberra. After Remembrance Driveway was realigned to the present Hume Highway and Hume Motorway alignment in late 1980s, the former route is designated as Remembrance Drive. [5]

History

The driveway is historic, being a part of the original Great South Road, [6] servicing the traffic between Sydney and Melbourne. The first road over the Razorback Range was cut in 1825 by convict gangs. The current route was cleared in 1830. Some sections of the route still use the concrete pavement laid in the 1920s and 1930s. The stretch along the Razorback Range is relatively steep. Between Picton and Bargo, the route passes through the town of Tahmoor instead of following an even older alignment of Hume Highway through Thirlmere, Hill Top and Colo Vale. [7]

Within New South Wales, the passing of the Main Roads Act of 1924 [8] 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 eventually Transport for NSW). Main Road No. 2 was declared along Great South Road on 8 August 1928, heading south from Camden through Picton, Bargo, Yanderra and Alpine (and continuing northeast through Narellan, Liverpool and Bankstown to the intersection with Great Western Highway at Ashfield, and continuing southwest through Mittagong, Goulburn, Yass, and Gundagai to Albury). [2] With the passing of the Main Roads (Amendment) Act of 1929 [9] to provide for additional declarations of State Highways and Trunk Roads, this was amended to State Highway 2 on 8 April 1929. Great South Road was renamed Hume Highway later in 1928. [10]

The Department of Main Roads (having succeeded the MRB in 1932) declared Main Road 620 along Remembrance Drive from Camden, through Picton and Bargo to Yanderra (and continuing north along Camden Bypass to Narellan, and Camden Valley Way between Narellan and Prestons) when State Highway 2 was re-aligned along South Western Freeway, on 24 October 1984; [3] the section between Yanderra and Alpine remained undeclared.

The passing of the Roads Act of 1993 [11] updated road classifications and the way they could be declared within New South Wales. Under this act, Remembrance Drive retains its declaration as part of Main Road 620 (from Camden to Yanderra). [12]

As part of Hume Highway, the route was allocated National Route 31 in 1954 for its entire length. The Whitlam government introduced the federal National Roads Act 1974, [13] where roads declared as a National Highway were still the responsibility of the states for road construction and maintenance, but were fully compensated by the Federal government for money spent on approved projects. [13] :S7 As an important interstate link between the capitals of New South Wales and Victoria, Hume Highway was declared a National Highway in 1974, and the section between Yanderra and Camden was re-designated National Highway 31. When the section of South Western Freeway between Yanderra and Alpine opened in 1977, and the remaining section between Macarthur and Yanderra was open in late 1980, National Highway 31 was re-allocated along it each time; the entire former alignment between Camden and Alpine was allocated State Route 89 in 1980. With the conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in 2013, State Route 89 was abolished.

The towns and settlements along the route are historic and a tourist attraction in their own right.

Major intersections

LGALocationkm [1] miDestinationsNotes
Camden Camden 0.00.0Argyle Street (Camden Valley Way) (east)  Narellan
Cawdor Road (west)  Cawdor, Razorback
Northern terminus of road
CamdenCamden South boundary2.11.3Camden Bypass  Narellan
2.41.5Burragorang Road  The Oaks, Nattai
Wollondilly CawdorMenangle Park boundary7.64.7Finns Road  Menangle, Douglas Park Roundabout
Razorback 12.67.8Mount Hercules Road  Razorback
Picton 20.012.4Menangle Street (Picton Road)  Maldon, Wilton, Wollongong
20.412.7 Main Southern railway line
Bargo River 29.418.3Bridge (no known official name)
Wollondilly Bargo 29.518.3 Main Southern railway line
Yanderra 39.324.4AUS Alphanumeric Route M31.svg Hume Motorway (M31)  Mittagong, Goulburn, Canberra Southbound entrance and northbound exit only
41.325.7 Main Southern railway line
Wingecarribee Yerrinbool 42.426.3
48.230.0
Alpine 50.031.1
50.831.6
51.732.1Old South Road  Bowral
AlpineColo Vale boundary54.333.7AUS Alphanumeric Route M31.svg Hume Motorway (M31)  Prestons, Liverpool, Goulburn, Canberra Diamond interchange
Church Avenue  Colo Vale Southern terminus of road

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