Road Photos & Information: New South Wales
Prospect Highway, Bungarribee Road, Lancaster Street, Lyton Street, Richmond Road, Rooty Hill Road North, Woodstock Avenue, Carlisle Avenue, Roper Road and Erskine Park Road (State Route 63)
Statistics:
- Length:
- 24 km
- Termini:
- Eastern: Western Mwy (Metroad 4), Prospect
- Western: Mamre Rd (SR67), Erskine Park
- Suburbs, Towns & Localities Along Route:
- Prospect, Blacktown, Woodcroft, Marayong, Glendenning, Dean Park, Oakhurst, Plumpton, Rooty Hill, Mount Druitt, Colyton, St Clair and Erskine Park
Route Numbering:
- Current: None
- Former: 61
- Multiplexed with: 63
- Road Authority Internal Classification: 1
- MR644 (Prospect to Blacktown)
- MR643 (Blacktown to Oakhurst)
- MR537 (Oakhurst to Rooty Hill)
- MR629 (Rooty Hill to Erskine Park)
General Information:
State Route 63 was a short-lived circuitous route in Sydney's western suburbs. The route acted as a link between the Blacktown and Mount Druitt town centres and surrounding suburbs to the Western Motorway.
Servicing residential, commercial, industrial and semi-rural areas, the route was a mix of divided and undivided road varying from single lane in each direction to 2 lanes in each direction.
Multiplexes along the route include:
- State Route 61, for 3 km, between Oakhurst and Rooty Hill.
History:
- 1970s: Rooty Hill Road and Blacktown Road widening. Carlisle Avenue railway overpass opened to traffic.
- 1980s: Bungarribee Road duplication and Carlisle Avenue extension to Roper Road.
- May 1992: The opening of the missing link in the Western Motorway between Mays Hill and Blacktown. This includes the Prospect Highway interchange.
Post-1998 photos presented below are remnants, either missed during decommissioning or due to removal of coverplates or coverplates falling off.
Prospect to Erskine Park
NEW Intersection Directional Sign:
ID sign on Roper Rd, Colyton, facing the off ramp from Western Mwy (Metroad 4), April 2023.
Image © Paul Rands
1 Sam Laybutt (Ozroads).