European route E30

E30
Major junctions
From:	Cork (Ireland)
To:	Omsk (Russia)
Location
Countries:	Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Belarus, Russia
Highway system
International E-road network

European route E 30 is an A-Class West-East European route, extending from the southern Irish port of Cork in the west to the Russian city of Omsk in the east. For much of its Russian stretch, it coincides with Trans-Siberian Highway and, east of the Ural Mountains, with AH6 of the Asian Highway Network, which continues to Busan, South Korea.

History

The E 30 is one of the longest European routes with a total length of about 5,800 km (3,600 mi)—3,300 km (2,100 mi) from Cork to Moscow, and 2,500 km (1,600 mi) from Moscow to Omsk. The naming is by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.

Formerly the route only went from Cork to Samara, with an often reported length of 4,912 km (3,052 mi).

Formerly, before 1985, this was the E 8 (London–Berlin–Brest).

Itinerary

The E 30 routes over seven European countries, and includes two sea-crossings, one from Rosslare in Ireland to Fishguard in Wales, and one from Felixstowe in England to Hook of Holland in the Netherlands.

Ireland

• N25 road: Cork–Waterford–Wexford–Rosslare Europort

The Rosslare–Fishguard ferry departs twice daily, taking about three and a half hours.

United Kingdom

Although the United Kingdom Government participates fully in activities concerning the E-routes, 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 with the E15 between the A1 and Brentwood).
• A12: Brentwood–Chelmsford–Colchester–Ipswich
• A14: Ipswich–Felixstowe

The nearest passenger ferries to Hoek van Holland actually depart from Harwich, across the Orwell south of Felixstowe. That ferry has 2 daily departures, one is a day crossing, the other a night crossing, both taking about 7–8 hours. It carries foot (train) passengers as well as cars, buses, caravans and freight lorries. Ferries departing from Felixstowe carry freight only.

Netherlands

E30 near The Hague

Main article: European route E30 in the 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

Main article: German autobahns

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

Poland

A2/E30 near Poznań Komorniki interchange

Within Poland E 30 follows A2 motorway and the National Road 2.

• A2
  • Świecko
  • Świebodzin
  • Poznań
  • Konin
  • Stryków (near Łódź)
  • Łowicz
  • Warsaw
• Road no. 2
  • Siedlce
  • Biała Podlaska
  • Terespol

Belarus

Magistral route M1.

• Brest
• Kobryn
• Baranavichy
• Minsk
• Barysaw
• Orsha

Russia

The Russian stretch of this road coincides partly with the Asian Highway Network's AH6 (though this latter highway passes through Petropavl, Kazakhstan in its stretch between Chelyabinsk and Omsk, unlike the E 30). The E 30 follows the Russian main road M1 Belarus-Moscow, M5 Moscow-Chelyabinsk and M51 Chelyabinsk-Kurgan. It goes along minor roads past Ishim to avoid the Kazak border towards Omsk.

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

Trivia

In the 1980s, a travel agency in the Netherlands, called E30, organized trips with a camper-touring car along the E30, starting at Utrecht and with stops in Berlin, Warsaw, Minsk, Smolensk and end destination Moscow.

See also

• Category:Constituent roads of European route E30