The Route nationale 30 is a highway in Picardy and

Nord-Pas-de-Calais Nord-Pas-de-Calais (); pcd, Nord-Pas-Calés); is a former administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region Hauts-de-France. It consisted of the departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais. Nord-Pas-de-Calais ...

, northern

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. It connects the town of

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to with

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. Before 1973, The RN 30 was connecting Rouen to La Capelle. The road has been renamed N 31 between Rouen and

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and N 29 between Saint-Quentin and La Capelle. It has been downgraded in D 930 between Gournay-en-Bray and Saint-Quentin.

Route

The road starts with a junction of the former N 17 (now the D 1017) in the town of

. It crosses junction 14 of the

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. The road passes a number of war cemeteries and has now been numbered the D 930. After

Beaumetz-lès-Cambrai Beaumetz-lès-Cambrai (, literally ''Beaumetz near Cambrai''; pcd, Biaumés-lès-Kimbré) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France. Geography A farming village located southeast of Arras ...

the road becomes the N 30. The road crosses the A26 autoroute and through the village of Fontaine-Notre-Dame before junction 14 of the

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. The road then enters the town of Cambrai. The road has junctions with the N 43,

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and N 39. The road leaves the town to the north west heading through the small town of

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before a junction with the A 2 onto which through traffic is now directed. A downgraded N 30 continues to the north of the autoroute through

Bouchain Bouchain (; vls, Boesem) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It lies halfway between Cambrai and Valenciennes. Bouchain, seat of the early medieval County of Ostrevent, was taken by Arnulf I, Count of Flanders, in the 10th ...

and crossing to the south to go through

Douchy-les-Mines Douchy-les-Mines () is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. Geography Douchy-les-Mines located near the A2 motorway between Valenciennes and Cambrai. It lies adjacent to the south of Denain and is a part of the urban area of ...

and into the town of

. The N 30 continues to the north east passing through the town of

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before reaching the frontier with

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. The road continues across the border into the town of Quievrain as the N51. 030 {{france-road-stub