User:Dave Rave/Victoria Pass
Great Western Highway Pass of Victoria | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Highway |
| Length | 3 km (1.9 mi) |
| Opened | 1838 |
| Built by | Mitchell |
| Route number(s) | 31 |
| Major junctions | |
| Mount Victoria | |
| Hartley | |
| Highway system | |
Mt Victoria Pass is a descent from the upper Blue Mountains area near Mount Victoria to the Hartley Valley area of Lithgow.[1]
preamble[edit]
1813 crossing of the Blue Mountains
Cox's Road[edit]
Cox's road was built following the same trail that the 1813 expedition used with a very steep drop down the slope to the valley.[2] It had a minor deviation in the same area
Lawson's Long Alley[edit]
Lawson's Long Alley was developed using a descent along a creek valley rather than the end of the promontory.[3]
Lockyers descent[edit]
Lockyers descent was then started attempting to ease Lawson's easy descent by making another stupidly steep descent just like COx's. Major Mitchell heard of an option and after inspecting and thinking made the decision to abandon Lockyer's and head across to the other thing and built the new road.
Victoria Pass[edit]
part between two parts, causeway ...[4]
Berghofer's Pass[edit]
Victoria Pass was an improvement for straight line distance and built for longevity, but as it was so steep the motor cars of the day didn't cope with the steep grade. A local, Berghofer, built an easy grade ascent below the loine of the pass around 1912.
Gallery[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Glenn Rigden (December 2001). "The Victoria Pass Roadway Mount Victoria NSW" (PDF). Engineers Australia. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
- ^ "Cox's Road and Early Deviations - Mount York, Cox's Pass Precinct | NSW Environment & Heritage". NSW Environment & Heritage. NSW Government. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
- ^ "My005 : Lawson's Long Alley". New South Wales Heritage Database. Office of Environment & Heritage.
- ^ "Victoria Pass". New South Wales Heritage Database. Office of Environment & Heritage.
Further Reading[edit]
- Karskens, Grace; Stocks, Robyn (1988), An historical and archaeological study of Victoria Pass, Great Western Highway, Mt Victoria, New South Wales, retrieved 31 December 2016
- New South Wales. Department of Urban Affairs and Planning (1996), Rectification of rock batter at Victoria Pass, Mount Victoria : Director-General's report : Section 115C of the Environmental Planning & Assessment Act, Dept. of Urban Affairs and Planning, ISBN 978-0-7310-6214-0