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Halfway along the Hume

Have you visited the town of Tarcutta, in New South Wales? It is… um, small, really.

Last weekend, I had cause to leave Melbourne and travel to Wollongong (as I have done previously) along the Hume Highway. This time, I took my digital camera to record some of the highlights. One of those ‘highlights’ (that’s probably not the right word) is a small town called Tarcutta, located near Gundagai between Albury and Goulburn. It is approximately half way between Melbourne and Sydney.

Most of the Hume Highway has been ‘duplicated’ into a freeway that bypasses all the towns and regional centres between Melbourne and Sydney. However there are some sections that have not been completed yet, and Tarcutta is located on one of these stretches.


The Hume Highway just south of Tarcutta

What has caught my eye in this town is the lack of anything really. As The Age Travel Guide poignantly puts it; “It is hard to see Tarcutta as anything more than a stopover place on the Hume Highway between Sydney and Melbourne”. So true, even Australia Post says so. Tarcutta is not much more than a petrol station, a small number of houses and a pub.

However, it is the pub that is of most interest. It is called the Tarcutta Hotel and is the most prosperous-looking establishment in this town of 263 people. Out there in the middle of nowhere is this rather bold-looking, well-maintained pub. I have even found some people who have visited it! Having seen the inside, they say it has a “… fireplace and bar on the first floor and the price is reasonable”. I myself didn’t visit… you know what they say about drinking and driving. But I just had to take a photo of this place.


The Tarcutta Hotel

Still, it has to be said for Tarcutta, that it is not quite devoid of attractions (aside from the Hotel). There is apparently a Truck Drivers’ Memorial in town, and also a speed camera. There was a historic railway station, until that burnt down in 2001. I am not sure there is much else I can say about Tarcutta, really.

   

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