EUROPEAN ROUTE E30

'European route E30' 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.

Contents

History

Itinerary

Ireland

United Kingdom

Netherlands

Germany

Poland

Belarus

Russia

History

The E30 is one of the longest European routes with a total length of about 3625 miles/ 5800 km (2062 miles/ 3300km from Cork to Moscow, 1560 miles/ 2500km 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 3070 miles (4912km).
Formerly, before 1985, this was the E8 (London-Berlin-Brest).

Itinerary

The E30 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 ferry Rosslare - Fishguard departs twice daily, taking about 3 hours.

United Kingdom

European routes are not recognized by UK authorities and not signposted in the UK.

★ A40: Fishguard - Carmarthen

★ A48: Carmarthen - Swansea

★ M4: Swansea - Bridgend - Cardiff - Newport - Bristol -Swindon - Reading - Slough

★ M25: Slough - 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, at the E32. That ferry has 4 daily departures and takes about 4 hours. Cargo ferries depart from Felixstowe.

Netherlands

★ N211: Hoek van Holland - Den Haag

★ A12: Den Haag - Gouda - Utrecht

★ A28: Utrecht - Amersfoort

★ A1: Amersfoort - Apeldoorn - Deventer - Hengelo - Oldenzaal - de Lutte

Germany

★ A30: Osnabrück - Bad Oeynhausen

★ B61: Bad Oeynhausen

★ A2: Bad Oeynhausen - Hannover - Braunschweig - Magdeburg - Potsdam

★ A10: Potsdam - Berlin

★ A12: Berlin - Frankfurt an der Oder

Poland

Within Poland E30 follows National Road 2 (DK2) and the A2 motorway.

★ Świebodzin - Poznań - Konin - Łódź - Łowicz - Warsaw - Siedlce - Biała Podlaska

Belarus

★ Brest - Minsk

Russia

The Russian stretch of this road overlaps with the Asian Highway Network's AH6 (which passes through Kazakhstan in its stretch between Chelyabinsk and Omsk). It follows the Russian main road M1 Belarus-Moscow, M5 Moscow-Chelyabinsk and M51 Chelyabinsk-Omsk.

★ M1: Smolensk - Moscow

★ M5: Moscow - Ryazan - Penza - Samara - Ufa - Chelyabinsk

★ M51: Chelyabinsk - Kurgan - Ishim - Omsk