Flinders Highway, Queensland

















































Flinders Highway


Queensland

Flinders Highway 1612.svg
Flinders Highway (green on black)
General information
Type Highway
Length 775 km (482 mi)
Route number(s)
State Highway A6
Former
route number
National Route 78
Major junctions
West end
Barkly Highway (National Highway A2), Cloncurry
 



  • Landsborough Highway (National Highway A2), east of Cloncurry


  • Kennedy Developmental Road (State Route 62)


  • Gregory Developmental Road (State Highway A7)


  • Gregory Developmental Road (State Route 63)
East end
Bruce Highway (Queensland Highway A1), Townsville
Location(s)
Major settlements
Julia Creek, Richmond, Hughenden, Charters Towers
Highway system


  • Highways in Australia


  • National Highway • Freeways in Australia

  • Highways in Queensland







The Flinders Highway is a highway that crosses Queensland east to west, from Townsville on the Pacific coast to Cloncurry. The road continues as the Barkly Highway from Cloncurry to the Northern Territory border at Camooweal and beyond. The Flinders Highway passes a number of small outback towns and typical outback landscape predominates towards the inland. It was known as National Route 78 before Queensland began to convert to the alphanumeric system being adopted in Australia and is now designated as A6. The highway is also known as Overlanders Way.[1] Its entire length is part of the National Land Transport Network (formerly Auslink).[2]




Approximate road distances (in kilometres) of towns from Townsville along the highway




Contents






  • 1 Towns


    • 1.1 Charters Towers


    • 1.2 Pentland


    • 1.3 Hughenden


    • 1.4 Richmond


    • 1.5 Julia Creek


    • 1.6 Cloncurry




  • 2 Major intersections


  • 3 See also


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





Towns



Charters Towers


Charters Towers, 133 km to the south west from Townsville. A former gold rush town with a population of 30 000 in 1890. At that time it was known as "The World" because it seemed to be the centre of everything. Presently it is a centre for cattle grazing, with gold mining continuing to be an important industry. Much of the elegant gold rush architecture of the nineteenth century remains in place and is a tourist attraction.



Pentland



Hughenden


Located 243 km further on, Hughenden, the administrative centre of Flinders shire is in the heart of sheep and cattle country.



Richmond


Richmond, a former gold rush town located 112 km further west. Currently a pastoral centre.



Julia Creek


Julia Creek, 147 km further west, another pastoral settlement



Cloncurry


Cloncurry, former copper-mining town located 139 km west from Julia Creek. The first regular Qantas flights started between here and Charleville in 1922 and Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia service started here in 1928. Nowadays it is an important road and rail junction. Flinders Highway ends here.



Major intersections














































































































LGA Location km mi Destinations Notes
Townsville Stuart 0 0.0
Bruce Highway (Queensland Highway A1) - north-west - Townsville /
south-east - Ayr /
Southern Port Road - north-east - Port of Townsville
 Eastern end of Flinders Highway (National Route A6)
1.9 1.2 Stuart Drive - north - Townsville Flinders Highway continues south on Stuart Drive
Burdekin River 105 65
Macrossan Bridge (see also Great Northern Railway)
Charters Towers Charters Towers 122 76
Gregory Highway (State Route 63) - west - Greenvale
 Northern concurrency terminus with Gregory Highway /
Flinders Highway continues south-west through Charters Towers
Black Jack 130 81
Gregory Highway (State Route A7) - south - Clermont
 Southern concurrency terminus with Gregory Highway
Flinders Torrens Creek 284 176
Torrens Creek Aramac Road (State Route 18) - south - Aramac
Hughenden 371 231
Hughenden Muttaburra Road (State Route 19) - south - Muttaburra
373.0 231.8
Kennedy Developmental Road (State Route 62) - west - Winton
 Southern concurrency terminus with Kennedy Developmental Road
373.1 231.8
Kennedy Developmental Road (State Route 62) - north - Mount Garnet
 Northern concurrency terminus with Kennedy Developmental Road
McKinlay Julia Creek 637 396
Julia Creek Kynuna Road (State Route 84) - south - Kynuna
640 400
Wills Developmental Road (State Route 84) - north-west - Burketown
Cloncurry Cloncurry 759 472
Landsborough Highway (National Route A2) - south-east - Kynuna		 Eastern concurrency terminus with Landsborough Highway
Cloncurry River 775.0 481.6
Ernest Henry Bridge
Cloncurry Cloncurry 775.2 481.7
Burke Developmental Road (National Route 83) - north - Normanton /
Barkly Highway (National Route A2) - west - Mount Isa
 Western concurrency terminus with Landsborough Highway.
Western end of Flinders Highway
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

  •       Concurrency terminus



See also




  • Highways in Australia

  • List of highways in Queensland



References





  1. ^ "Outback Australia - Australian Outback". Outbacknow.com.au. Archived from the original on 20 February 2012. Retrieved 21 July 2013..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 February 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)




External links



  • Overlander's Highway A driving guide by Roderick Eime








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