Editing Albury (section)

==Transport==

===Road===
[[File:Hume Freeway at Albury 2.JPG|thumb|[[Hume Highway]] internal bypass running beside [[Albury railway station]]]]
Situated on the [[Hume Highway]], Albury is a major transit point for interstate commerce. In March 2007, Albury city centre was bypassed by a new section of the [[Hume Freeway]]. The city centre bypass includes the new Spirit of Progress Bridge over the Murray River, and cost $518&nbsp;million, the most expensive road project built in rural Australia at that time.<ref>{{cite press release|title=Opening of $518&nbsp;million Albury Wodonga Hume Freeway Project |publisher=[[Government of Australia]] |date=4 March 2007 |url=http://www.ministers.dotars.gov.au/mv/releases/2007/March/030MV_2007.htm |access-date=16 June 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070903193302/http://www.ministers.dotars.gov.au/mv/releases/2007/March/030MV_2007.htm |archive-date=3 September 2007 }}</ref>

Creation of the lake resulting from construction of the Hume Dam from 1915 onward necessitated a 30 km deviation of the Hume Highway. The Highway originally ran east out of Albury, along what is now the Riverina Highway, then turned north through Thurgoona via today’s Table Top Rd then Old Sydney Road, then crossed Bowna Creek to follow Plunkett Rd to Bowna. The deviation, opened in 1933, follows the first 9 km of the Wagga Road, then crossed the railway and ran to Bells Road before turning east then southeast to Bowna. Most of this route, although now duplicated, remains as part of the Hume Highway, other than the 2009 Yellow Creek deviation.

The other minor highways which connect to Albury are the [[Riverina Highway]], which runs west through [[Berrigan, New South Wales|Berrigan]] to [[Deniliquin]] and east to [[Lake Hume]]; and the [[Olympic Highway]] which diverges north from the Hume {{convert|16|km}} north of Albury, and runs across the South Western Slopes via [[Wagga Wagga]], [[Cootamundra]] and [[Young, New South Wales|Young]] to terminate at the [[Mid-Western Highway]] at [[Cowra]].

In 1888, the Smollett Street wrought iron arch bridge was constructed over Bungambrawatha Creek. Smollet Street was extended westward through the botanical gardens to give direct access from [[Albury railway station]] to Howlong Road by a straight street. The bridge is near the botanic gardens and the local swimming pool. The bridge is a rare example of a metal arch bridge in New South Wales, and is the oldest of only two such bridges in New South Wales, the other being the [[Sydney Harbour Bridge]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Smollet Street Bridge over Bungambrawatha Creek |work=Heritage and conservation register |publisher=[[Roads & Traffic Authority]] |date=13 November 2003 |url=http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=heritage.show&id=4301661 |access-date=28 November 2006 |archive-date=2 September 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060902150540/https://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=heritage.show&id=4301661 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Rail===
[[File:AlburyRailwayStation2.JPG|thumb|Albury railway station, built in 1881 in the [[Australian non-residential architectural styles#Victorian Italianate|Victorian Italianate]] style]]
[[Albury railway station]] is on the main Sydney-Melbourne railway line. Originally, New South Wales and Victoria had different [[track gauge]]s, which meant that all travellers in either direction had to change trains at Albury. To accommodate this, a very long [[railway platform]] was needed; the {{convert|450|m|adj=on}} long covered platform is one of the longest in Australia.<ref name="platform">{{cite web|title=Albury anything but borderline|url=http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/country-living/travel/albury-anything-but-borderline/story-fnkeraqd-1226776867017|work=[[The Weekly Times]]|access-date=12 December 2014|archive-date=4 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904063406/http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/country-living/travel/albury-anything-but-borderline/story-fnkeraqd-1226776867017|url-status=dead}}</ref> The broad gauge section of track between Seymour and Albury has now been converted to standard gauge; there is no longer a [[break-of-gauge]] at Albury station. The station is served by a three daily [[V/Line]] train services from [[Southern Cross railway station|Melbourne]] (terminating at Albury) and the [[NSW TrainLink]] Melbourne-Sydney [[New South Wales XPT|XPT]] service, which runs twice daily in each direction.
In 1873, the {{convert|5|ft|3|in|adj=on}} [[broad gauge]] railway line from Melbourne reached the township of Belvoir/Wodonga. In 1881, the New South Wales {{convert|4|ft|8.5|in|adj=on}} [[standard gauge]] railway line reached Albury, with a railway bridge joining the two colonies in 1883. Albury became the stop over, where passengers on the Melbourne-Sydney journey changed trains until 1962, when a standard gauge track was opened between the two capitals. After World War II, in an attempt to overcome the difference in gauges and speed up traffic, a [[bogie exchange]] device lifted freight wagons and carriages allowing workers to refit rolling stock with different gauged wheel-sets.

The break of railway gauge at Albury was a major impediment to Australia's war effort and infrastructure during both World Wars, as every soldier, every item of equipment, and all supplies had to be off-loaded from the broad gauge and reloaded onto a standard gauge railway wagon on the opposite side of the platform. In his book ''Tramps Abroad'', writer [[Mark Twain]] in 1895 wrote of the break of gauge at Albury and changing trains: ""Now comes a singular thing, the oddest thing, the strangest thing, the most unaccountable marvel that Australia can show. At the frontier between NSW and Victoria our multitude of passengers were routed out of their snug beds by lantern light in the morning in the biting cold to change cars. Think of the paralysis of intellect that gave that idea birth, imagine the boulder it emerged from, on some petrified legislator's shoulders."<ref>{{cite book |author=Fischer, Tim |author-link=Tim Fischer |chapter=Forward |editor=Marsh, Bill 'Swampy' |title=Great Australian Railway Stories |publisher=ABC Books |year=2005 }}</ref>

During World War II military armouries and warehouses were established in the vicinity of Albury at Bonegilla, Wirlinga and Bandiana. Similar stores were also established at [[Tocumwal]] and [[Oaklands, New South Wales|Oaklands]]. The conversion of the broad gauge track to a second standard gauge track, between [[Seymour railway station|Seymour]] and Albury, was substantially completed in 2011. The railway station and its associated yards are listed on both the [[Australian National Heritage List]] and the [[New South Wales State Heritage Register]].<ref name="AHD">{{cite AHD|105912|Albury Railway Station and Yard|access-date=12 October 2017}}</ref><ref name="SHR">{{cite NSW SHR|5045002|Albury Railway Station and yard group|fn=H06/00078|access-date=12 October 2017}}</ref>

===Air===
[[File:Albury Airport, NSW, January 2022, 12.jpg|thumb|Albury Airport terminal]]
[[Albury Airport]], owned and operated by the [[City of Albury]], is the second busiest regional airport in New South Wales with around 280,000 passenger movements per year. The airport, {{convert|4|km}} east of the city centre, has scheduled daily flights to [[Sydney Airport|Sydney]], [[Melbourne Airport|Melbourne]] and [[Brisbane Airport|Brisbane]] through commercial carriers.  The road leading from Albury Airport to the city was renamed Borella Road in 1979, in honour of [[Victoria Cross]] recipient [[Albert Chalmers Borella]], who was buried at Albury.<ref name="heroroad">{{cite news|last1=Manuel |first1=Krysten |title=Our hero road |url=http://www.starphotos.com.au/autoepaper/for_upload/2014-05-21_awn_221.pdf |access-date=12 December 2014 |work=Albury Wodonga News Weekly |issue=2303 |publisher=[[Star News Group]] |date=21 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213014838/http://www.starphotos.com.au/autoepaper/for_upload/2014-05-21_awn_221.pdf |archive-date=13 December 2014 }}</ref>

===Public transport and cycling===
Local public transport is provided exclusively by private bus operators, Martin's Albury and [[Dysons]] who run day time bus services. The overwhelming majority of local transport is by private car, however traffic is generally moderate. The opening of the Hume Freeway bypass on 4 March 2007,<ref>{{cite web |title = Hume Freeway |publisher=Abi Group |url = http://esvc000696.wic024u.server-web.com/ |access-date =21 June 2007}}</ref> has greatly eased previous traffic congestion on the Lincoln Causeway, allowing vastly better flow between Albury and Wodonga.

There is a good network of bicycle paths in the city, including one to the outlying suburb of Thurgoona and across the state border to Wodonga. A new program has built many more bike tracks, including one from the riverside parks to Wonga Wetlands.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bike and walking trails |publisher=[[City of Albury]] |url=http://www.alburycity.nsw.gov.au/city/transport/trails.htm |access-date=28 November 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060918154318/http://www.alburycity.nsw.gov.au/city/transport/trails.htm |archive-date=18 September 2006 }}</ref>