Thunderbolts Way briefly joins the 878 km highway that starts in what New South Wales town?
Thunderbolts Way:  The road links Gloucester to Walcha (where it crosses the Oxley Highway), Uralla, where it very briefly joins the New England Highway and, to Copes Creek, 16 km south of the Gwydir Highway intersection at Inverell. New England Highway: The New England Highway is an 878 km long highway in Australia running from Hexham at Newcastle, New South Wales at its southern end to Yarraman near Toowoomba, Queensland at its northern end.
Newcastle