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 Interactive Map of Old National Highway3 in red | ||||
 Old NH 3 Nashik - Mumbai, Maharashtra | ||||
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Part of AH43 AH47 | ||||
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| North end | Agra,Uttar Pradesh | |||
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| South end | Mumbai,Maharashtra | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | India | |||
| States | Uttar Pradesh: 26 km Rajasthan: 32 km Madhya Pradesh: 712 km Maharashtra: 391 km | |||
| Primary destinations | Agra–Gwalior–Indore–Dhule–Nashik–Mumbai | |||
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National Highway 3 (old number), or Old nationalNH 3, commonly referred to as theAgra–Mumbai Road or just Agra Road in Mumbai, was a major IndianNational Highway that ran through the states ofUttar Pradesh,Rajasthan,Madhya Pradesh andMaharashtra in India.[1] The national highway still exists but its various segments have been assigned new numbers as stated in the following section.
National Highway 3A was a branch highway betweenBharatpur and terminated atDholpur,Rajasthan.
The highway originated inAgra in Uttar Pradesh, generally travelled southwest throughDholpur in Rajasthan,Morena,Gwalior,Shivpuri,Guna,Biaora,Maksi,Dewas,Indore,Julwania &Sendhwa in Madhya Pradesh, andShirpur,Nardana,Dhule,Malegaon,Nashik,Thane and terminated atMumbai. The length of the oldNH-3 was 1,260.25 kilometres (783.08 mi).
The stretch between Agra and Gwalior was marked as theNorth–South corridor/NH-44 by theNational Highways Authority of India. The stretch between Gwalior & Biaora is marked asNH-46 & the stretch between Biaora & Dhule is now marked asNH-52 by theNational Highways Authority of India. The stretch from Mumbai to Nashik is nowMumbai Nashik Expressway. After it entered Bombay, the highway was known asEastern Express Highway. Currently, the stretch between Agra and Gwalior is four-lane. The stretch from Gwalior via Shivpuri, Guna, Maksi up to Dewas road is now four-lane. The condition between Shivpuri and Maksi is newly constructed and good. Now the Condition of the road from Dewas toIndore is six lanes and it continues till Rau (Indore). The road from Rau (Indore) to Mumbai has four lanes but the highway passed through congested Nasik city. Now an elevated expressway of 25.27 kilometres (15.70 mi) has been built to solve the problem of congestion. Stretch from Nashik to Mumbai is 4-laneMumbai Nashik Expressway. The stretch from Pimpalgaon Bsawant - Nashik - Gondhe is 6 Lane expressway. The stretch from Padgha to Thane 8 lane is in progress.
Afterrenumbering of all national highways byNational Highway Authority of India in 2010, the former NH 3 has been broken into several new national highway numbers and the old NH 3 number has ceased to exist.
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