Road Photos & Information: New South Wales
Pacific Motorway, Pacific Highway, New England Highway, John Renshaw Drive, Gore Hill Freeway, Warringah Freeway, Sydney Harbour Tunnel, Eastern Distributor, Southern Cross Drive, General Holmes Drive, The Grand Parade, President Avenue, Princes Highway and Princes Motorway (M1 / A1)
Gerringong to Nowra
Statistics:
- Length:
- 1333 km (Gerringong to Nowra: 34 km)
- Termini:
- Northern: Northern: Pacific Mwy (M1), Tweed Heads, at the NSW / QLD Border
- Southern: Southern: Princes Hwy (A1), Timbillica, at the NSW / VIC Border
- Suburbs, Towns & Localities Along Route:
- Gerringong, Toolijooa, Berry, Meroo Meadow, Bomaderry and Nowra
Route Numbering:
- Current: A1
- Former: 1
- Road Authority Internal Classification: 1
- HW1 (Victorian border to Yallah and Waterfall to Kogarah)
General Information:
M1 / A1 is the principal coastal route through New South Wales, and forms part of the circumferential route around Australia.
The route varies greatly along its length and includes sections of rural highway, urban arterial road, divided rural highway and also motorway. The route also features several tunnels, located in the inner east, inner south and lower northern suburbs of Sydney and at Yelgun and Tweed Heads, at the northern end of the route in NSW. The route passes through forest, rural, residential, commercial and industrial areas.
The Princes Highway was formed from a string of roads linking Sydney to the Illawarra, and then forming a coastal route to Melbourne and into South Australia. The section covered by A1 is in 2 pieces - between Kogarah and Waterfall in Sydney, and then Kiama near Wollongong through to the Victorian Border. The route is a mix of urban arterial road, dual carriageway and also rural highway.
History:
- Princes Highway:
- 7 June 1926: The Princes Highway comes under a federal and state government £ for £ funding scheme, thus recognising the importance of the highway as major route.
- 1881: Construction of the Nowra Bridge over the Shoalhaven River.
- August 1920: Official opening of Princes Highway performed at Warragul in Victoria. The formation of the Princes Highway is from existing roads being renamed, after the visit to Australia in 1920 of the Prince of Wales (later to become King Edward VIII, and after abdicating, the Duke of Windsor).
- 1 July 1928: Princes Highway became a state highway. 2
- 1939: By the middle of the year, 300 miles (or 50% of the then highway) had been paved with bituminous surface.
- 1981: Duplication of Nowra Bridge.
- November 2011: Construction on the upgrade started at South Nowra to provide consistent four lane conditions on the Princes Highway between Bomaderry and Jervis Bay Road. 3
- November 2012: Work started on Princes Hwy upgrade between Gerringong and Toolooja. 4
Click or tap here for photos of the former alignment between Gerringong and Nowra.
Gerringong to Nowra
NEW Supplemental Advance Directional Sign:
Supplemental AD sign on Princes Hwy (A1) at Gerringong approaching Fern St, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Supplemental Advance Directional Sign:
Supplemental AD sign on Princes Hwy (A1) at Gerringong approaching Fern St, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Advance Directional Sign:
AD sign on Princes Hwy (A1) at Gerringong approaching Fern St, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Services Sign:
Services sign on Princes Hwy (A1) at Gerringong approaching Fern St, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Fern Street:
Fern Street interchange, Gerringong, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Fern Street:
Princes Hwy (A1) passing through Fern Street interchange, Gerringong, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Advance Directional Sign:
AD sign on Fern St after Ross Valley Rd for the ramp onto Princes Hwy (A1) at Gerringong, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Advance Directional Sign:
AD sign on Princes Hwy (A1) at Gerringong approaching Belinda St, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Services Sign:
Services sign on Princes Hwy (A1) at Gerringong approaching Belinda St, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Belinda Street:
Princes Hwy (A1) at the Belinda St interchange, Gerringong, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Crooked River:
Princes Hwy (A1) crossing Crooked River, Gerringong, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Advance Directional Sign:
AD sign at Gerringong approaching Toolijooa Rd, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Reassurance Directional Sign:
RD sign at Gerringong, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Advance Directional Sign:
AD sign on Princes Hwy (A1) at Toolijooa approaching Toolijooa Rd, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Toolijooa Road:
Princes Hwy (A1) at the Toolijooa Rd interchange at Toolijooa, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Austral Park Road:
Princes Hwy (A1) crossing over Austral Pk Rd at Broughton Village, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Advance Directional Sign:
AD sign at Bomaderry, approaching Cambewarra Rd (B73 / TD7 / TD8 and unnumbered), May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Intersection Directional Sign:
ID sign at Bomaderry, at the roundabout with Cambewarra Rd (B73 / TD7 / TD8 and unnumbered), May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Advance Directional Sign:
AD sign at Bomaderry, approaching Narang Rd, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Advance Directional Sign:
AD sign at Bomaderry, approaching Beinda St and Turley Av, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Intersection Directional Sign:
ID sign at Bomaderry, on the roundabout with Beinda St and Turley Av, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
UPDATED Advance Directional Sign:
AD sign approaching Bolong Rd at Bomaderry, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Bolong Road:
Corner of Princes Hwy (A1) and Bolong Rd at Bomaderry, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Advance Directional Sign:
AD sign approaching Illaroo Rd at Bomaderry, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Intersection Directional Sign:
Corner of Princes Hwy (A1) and Illaroo Rd at Bomaderry, May 2017. Note the old style Narrow Bridge sign.
Image © Paul Rands
Shoalhaven River:
Princes Hwy (A1) as it crosses Shoalhaven River via Nowra Bridge at Bomaderry, December 2013.
Image © Michael Greenslade
NEW Bridge Road:
Corner of Princes Hwy (A1) and Bridge Rd, Nowra, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Entering Nowra:
Princes Hwy (A1) as it enters the main part of Nowra, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Advance Directional Sign:
AD sign approaching Moss St, Nowra, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Intersection Directional Sign:
ID sign approaching Moss St, Nowra, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Advance Directional Sign:
AD sign approaching Moss St, Nowra, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Moss Street:
Corner of Princes Hwy (A1) and Moss St, Nowra, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Supplemental Advance Directional Sign:
Supplemental AD sign approaching Kalandar St at Nowra, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Advance Directional Sign:
AD sign approaching Kalandar St at Nowra, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
NEW Kalandar Street:
Corner of Princes Hwy (A1) and Kalandar St at Nowra, May 2017.
Image © Paul Rands
2 Main Roads Board, Annual Report, Volume 1, Number 1, September 1929.
3 Roads & Maritime Services, Projects, Princes Highway upgrade, South Nowra.
4 Roads & Maritime Services, Gerringong Upgrade, Community Update, November 2012.