New England Highway was re-routed through Warwick and Cunninghams Gap in Queensland on 11 August 1954. Against the wishes of the Beaudesert Shire Council and the Woodenbong Chamber of Commerce, the former alignment of New England Highway from Tenterfield through Beaudesert to Brisbane was re-declared Mount Lindesay Highway, after Mount Lindesay, the residue of a solidified magma core, that is part of the Mount Warning volcanic area and is situated in the western extreme of Border Ranges National Park. The Department of Main Roads (which had succeeded the MRB in 1932), declared the New South Wales section as State Highway 24, from Woodenbong to the state border with Queensland (and continuing southwest via Legume to Tenterfield).
