European route E30

E30
Major junctions
Frae	Cork (Ireland)
Tae	Omsk (Roushie)
Location
Countries	Ireland, Unitit Kinrick, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Belarus, Roushie
Heichwey seestem
	Internaitional E-road network

European route E 30 is an A-Class Wast-East European route, extendin frae the soothren Erse port o Cork in the wast tae the Roushie ceety o Omsk in the east. For much o its Roushie stretch, it coincides wi Trans-Siberian Highway an, east o the Ural Muntains, wi AH6 o the Asie Highway Network, which continues tae Busan, Sooth Korea.

History

The E 30 is ane o the langest European routes wi a tot length o aboot 5,800 km (3,600 mi)—3,300 km (2,100 mi) frae Cork tae Moscow, 2,500 km (1,600 mi) frae Moscow tae Omsk. The namin is bi the Unitit Naitions Economic Commission for Europe.

Formerly the route anly went frae Cork tae Samara, wi an eften reportit length o 4,912 km (3,052 mi).

Formerly, afore 1985, this wis the E 8 (London–Berlin–Brest).

Itinerary

The E 30 routes ower seven European kintras, an includes twa sea-crossins, ane frae Rosslare in Ireland tae Fishguard in Wales, an ane frae Felixstowe in Ingland tae Hook o Holland in the Netherlands.

Ireland

N25 road: Cork–Waterford–Wexford–Rosslare Europort

The Rosslare–Fishguard ferry departs twice daily, takin aboot three oors.

United Kingdom

Although the United Kingdom Government participates fully in activities anent the E-routes,^[1] E-routes are not signposted within the United Kingdom.

A40: Fishguard–Carmarthen
A48: Carmarthen–Llanelli
M4: Llanelli – Swansea – Port Talbot – Bridgend – Cardiff – Newport – Bristol – Swindon – Reading – Slough
M25: Slough–Brentwood (the E30 merges wi the E15 atween the A1 and Brentwood).
A12: Brentwood–Chelmsford–Colchester–Ipswich
A14: Ipswich–Felixstowe

The nearest passenger ferries tae Hoek van Holland actually depart frae Harwich, athort the Orwell sooth o Felixstowe. That ferry haes 2 daily depairtures, ane is a day crossin, the ither a nicht crossin, baith takin aboot 7–8 oors. It carries fit (train) passengers as well as caurs, buses, caravans an freicht lorries.^[2] Ferries departin frae Felixstowe carry freicht anly.

Netherlands

N211: Hoek van Holland – Den Hoorn
A4: Den Hoorn – Den Haag
A12: Den Haag – Gouda – Utrecht
A28: Utrecht–Amersfoort
A1: Amersfoort–Apeldoorn–Deventer–Hengelo
A1/A35: Hengelo
A1: Hengelo – Oldenzaal – de Lutte

Germany

	Bad Bentheim – Osnabrück – Bünde – Bad Oeynhausen
	Bad Oeynhausen
	Bad Oeynhausen – Hanover – Braunschweig – Magdeburg
	Potsdam (Berlin bypass)
	Fürstenwalde – Frankfurt an der Oder

Poland

Within Poland E 30 follows Naitional Road 2 an the A2 motorway.

Belarus

Magistral route M1.

Roushie

The Roushie stretch o this road coincides pairtly wi the Asie Highway Network's AH6 (though this latter highway passes through Petropavl, Kazakhstan in its stretch atween Chelyabinsk an Omsk, unlike the E 30). The E 30 follows the Roushie main road M1 Belarus-Moscow, M5 Moscow-Chelyabinsk an M51 Chelyabinsk-Kurgan. It gangs alang minor roads past Ishim in order tae avoid the Kazak border taewards Omsk.

M1: Smolensk–Moscow
M5: Moscow–Ryazan–Penza–Samara–Ufa–Chelyabinsk
M51: Chelyabinsk–Kurgan–Omsk

References

↑ For example Economic and Social Council Document ECE/TRANS/WP.6/AC.2/18 - 17 December 2008; Agenda item 6^{[deid airtin]} Participation in the 2005 E-route census
↑ For more information see: StenaLine Archived 2013-07-28 at the Wayback Machine or The Man in Seat 61 Seat61

Freemit airtins

[1] For example Economic and Social Council Document ECE/TRANS/WP.6/AC.2/18 - 17 December 2008; Agenda item 6^{[deid airtin]} Participation in the 2005 E-route census

[2] For more information see: StenaLine Archived 2013-07-28 at the Wayback Machine or The Man in Seat 61 Seat61

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