Photos from the archives showing the Hume Highway in days gone by.
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Yass Bridge and township circa 1876
Steamroller upon the unsealed 'great Southern Road' - Hume Highway - at Tahmor, near Picton [Sep 1926]
Men, horses and equipment working on the Razorback Range near Picton [Oct 1929]
The Tumblong to Tarcutta Deviation showing work in progress on the Wagga Loop [Jul 1939]
A heavily laden 'White' lorry with trailer at Jugigong approx 360km south of Sydney [Oct 1947]
Autumn foliage in the shire of Gunning, Hume Highway, looking towards Yass [May 1949]
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Excavator working on reconstruction of Hume Highway near Bass Hill [Mar 1952]
Reconstruction of highway near Bass Hill. Transverse screeding with vibrator attached to screed. [Mar 1952]
Overhead signs above the Hume Highway, viewed from the Villawood Road approach [Jul 1962]
Aerial of the Heavy Vehicle Checking Station on the Hume Highway, SH2, Marulan [Dec 1966]
Construction of a new bridge over the Bargo River and Rail Line at Bargo [Dec 1966]
Trucks on the Hume Highway north of Marulan [Mar 1968]
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Prior to the concrete bridge in 1977 traffic acrossed the Murrumbidgee River flood plain at Gundagai by a long narrow timber trestle structure [Jul 1976]
Tumblong Deviation. Aerial, south of Gundagai SH2. Hume Highway [Aug 1981
Trucks and congested traffic 5km south of Tumblong [Aug 1982]
