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Wimmera Highway is a 345 kilometre highway that connects the towns of Marong, Victoria and Naracoorte, South Australia, through the major junctions of Sunraysia Highway, Henty Highway and Western Highway.
Wimmera Highway –South Australia | |
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| Wimmera Highway passing through Rupanyup | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Highway |
| Length | 345 km (214 mi)[1] |
| Opened | 1960 |
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| Major junctions | |
| East end |  Calder Alternative HighwayMarong, Victoria |
| West end |  Riddoch HighwayNaracoorte, South Australia |
| Location(s) | |
| Region | Limestone Coast,[2] Grampians[3] |
| Major settlements | Newbridge, St Arnaud, Rupanyup, Murtoa, Horsham, Natimuk, Edenhope, Apsley |
| Highway system | |
History edit
The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924[4] through the Parliament of Victoria provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Country Roads Board (later VicRoads). Wimmera Highway was declared a State Highway in the 1959/60 financial year,[5] from St Arnaud via Rupanyup, Horsham and Edenhope to the South Australian border (for a total of 146 miles); before this declaration, these roads were referred to as Hamilton–Edenhope–Aspley Road, Edenhope–Horsham Road, Horsham–Murtoa Road, Rupanyup–Murtoa Road, Marnoo–St Arnaud Road and Navarre Road.[5] The highway was extended a further 90km east (along the former Bendigo–St Arnaud Road[6]) to Marong, just outside Bendigo, in the late 1990s.
A new bridge over Loddon River in Newbridge (on the then-Bendigo-St Arnaud Road) was opened in 1996, replacing an older, flood-prone structure that could no longer be maintained in a cost-effective manner, at a cost of $1.4 million.[6]
Wimmera Highway was signed as State Route 130 between Naracoorte and St Arnaud in 1986; with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, this was replaced by route C240 between Naracoorte and Marong. Subsequent road upgrades allowed the Victorian section to be reallocated route B240 in 2003.
The passing of the Road Management Act 2004[7] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Wimmera Highway (Arterial #6110), beginning at the South Australian border and ending at Calder Alternative Highway in Marong.[8]
Major intersections edit
| State | LGA[9] | Location[1][8][10] | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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| Victoria | Greater Bendigo | Marong | 0 | 0.0 | Calder Alternative Highway (A790) – Bendigo, Ravenswood | Eastern terminus of highway and route B240 |
| Loddon | Newbridge | 20 | 12 |  Bridgewater–Maldon Road (C282) – Bridgewater | Concurrency with route C282 | |
| 21 | 13 | Bridgewater–Maldon Road (C282) – Maldon | ||||
| Llanelly | 26 | 16 |  Bridgewater–Dunolly Road (C274) – Bridgewater | Concurrency with route C274 | ||
| Tarnagulla | 30 | 19 | Bridgewater–Dunolly Road (C274) – Dunolly | |||
| Moliagul | 46 | 29 |  Dunolly–Moliagul Road (C278) – Dunolly | |||
| Logan | 67 | 42 |  Logan–Wedderburn Road (C273) – Wedderburn | |||
| Northern Grampians | St Arnaud | 89 | 55 |  Sunraysia Highway (B220) – Donald, Ouyen | Concurrency with route B220 | |
| 90 | 56 | Sunraysia Highway (B220) – Avoca, Ballarat | ||||
| 96 | 60 |  Ararat–St Arnaud Road (C241) – Ararat | ||||
| Marnoo | 129 | 80 |  Donald–Stawell Road – Donald, Stawell | |||
| Rupanyup | 152 | 94 |  Stawell–Warracknabeal Road (B210) – Stawell | Concurrency with route B210 | ||
| 153 | 95 | Stawell–Warracknabeal Road (B210) – Warracknabeal | ||||
| Yarriambiack | Murtoa | 168 | 104 |  Murtoa–Glenorchy Road (C237) – Glenorchy | Concurrency with route C237 | |
| 169 | 105 | Donald–Murtoa Road (C237) – Minyip | ||||
| Horsham | Dooen | 188 | 117 |  Henty Highway (B200) – Warracknabeal, Hopetoun | Concurrency with route B200 from Dooen to Horsham Concurrency with routes A8, A200 through Horsham | |
| Horsham | 197 | 122 |  Western Highway (A8) – Nhill, Bordertown | |||
| 198 | 123 |  Western Highway (A8/200) – Stawell, Ballarat, to Henty Highway (A200) – Portland | ||||
| Vectis | 207 | 129 |  Horsham–Noradjuha Road (C214) – Toolondo | |||
| Natimuk | 220 | 140 |  Natimuk–Hamilton Road (C219) – Toolondo, Balmoral | |||
| 224 | 139 |  Natimuk–Frances Road (C213) – Goroke | ||||
| West Wimmera | Miga Lake | 253 | 157 |  Nhill–Harrow Road (C206) – Nhill, Harrow | ||
| Edenhope | 289 | 180 |  Kaniva–Edenhope Road (C208) – Kaniva | Concurrency with route C208 | ||
| 291 | 181 | Coleraine–Edenhope Road (C208) – Harrow, Casterton | ||||
| 297 | 185 |  Edenhope–Penola Road (C212) – Langkoop | ||||
| Aspley | 313 | 194 |  Casterton–Naracoorte Road (C211) – Langkoop, Casterton | Western terminus of route B240 | ||
| State border | 323 | 201 | Victoria – South Australia state border | |||
| South Australia | Naracoorte Lucindale | Hynam | 335 | 208 | Frances Road – Frances | Eastern terminus of route C240 |
| Naracoorte | 345 | 214 | Riddoch Highway (A66) – Mount Gambier, Keith | Western terminus of highway and route C240 | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c Google (9 December 2021). "Wimmera Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
- ^ "Location SA Map viewer with regional layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
- ^ "Victoria's Regions". Regional Development Victoria. Victoria State Government. 11 August 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
- ^ State of Victoria, An Act to make further provision with respect to Highways and Country Roads Motor Cars and Traction Engines and for other purposes 30 December 1924
- ^ a b "Country Roads Board Victoria. Forty-Seventh Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1960". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 21 November 1960. pp. 7–8.
- ^ a b "VicRoads Annual Report 1995-96". VicRoads. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 18 October 1996. p. 16.
- ^ State Government of Victoria. "Road Management Act 2004" (PDF). Government of Victoria. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 October 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ a b VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. pp. 950–1. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ "Location SA Map viewer with LGA layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
- ^ "Location SA Map viewer with suburb layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
External links edit
Media related to Wimmera Highway at Wikimedia Commons
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