Midland Highway | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Highway |
| Length | 450 km (280 mi)[1] |
| Route number(s) |
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| Former route number |
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| Major junctions | |
| Southwest end |   Princes HighwayGeelong, Victoria |
| Northeast end |  Maroondah HighwayMansfield, Victoria |
| Location(s) | |
| Major settlements | Ballarat, Daylesford, Castlemaine, Bendigo, Elmore, Shepparton, Benalla |
| Highway system | |
The Midland Highway is a major rural highway linking major towns in Victoria, beginning from Geelong and winding through country Victoria in a large arc through the cities of Ballarat, Bendigo and Shepparton, eventually reaching Mansfield at the foothills of the Victorian Alps.
The Midland Link Highway links Barjarg (on the Midland Highway) and Maindample (on the Maroondah Highway), bypassing Mansfield and reducing the journey from Benalla to Alexandra by 19 kilometres (12 mi).
History
The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924[2] 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). The Midland Highway was declared a State Highway in 1933,[3] cobbled together from roads between Geelong and Ballarat, between Shepparton and Benalla, and between Benalla to the turn-off road to Maindample in Barjang (for a total of 114 miles); before this declaration, these roads were referred to as Geelong–Ballarat Road, Shepparton–Nalinga Road and Benalla–Mansfield Road.[4] In the 1947/48 financial year, another section from Shepparton via Stanhope to Elmore was added,[5] along the former Shepparton–Elmore Road;[6] with the realignment of the Northern Highway south of Elmore running to Kilmore instead of to Bendigo declared at the same time,[5] the previous alignment of the Northern Highway between Elmore and Bendigo was also added to the Midland Highway. In the 1959/60 financial year, the last section from Ballarat via Creswick and Daylesford to Castlemaine was added,[7] along the former Ballarat–Creswick Road, Creswick–Daylesford Road and Castlemaine–Daylesford Roads.[7] With the deviation of the Calder Highway past Castlemaine declared at the same time,[7] the previous alignment of the Calder Highway between Castlemaine and Harcourt was also added to the Midland Highway. With the highway running concurrent with Calder Highway between Harcourt and Bendigo, the Midland Highway had finally achieved its present-day alignment at this stage. The Midland Link Highway was later declared in June 1983 along the former Maindample–Benalla Road.[8][9]
The Midland Highway also had a separate, southern section through South Gippsland, declared in 1939, from Morwell through Boolarra to Welshpool (with the intention to be linked up in the future with the existing highway at Mansfield),[6] along the former Morwell–Mirboo Road;[10] this appears to have been extended to Port Welshpool by 1972,[11] and a 9.6 km portion of highway through Yinnar was declared the Midland Freeway in 1975,[12] despite being only a single-carriageway road. The highway was re-routed with a 20 km deviation from south of Yinnar via Churchill to the Princes Highway in eastern Morwell in 1976;[13] the former alignment is now known as Yinnar Road and Brodribb Road (the latter signed route C468 in 1998). This section, eventually 88km long,[14] was eventually stripped of both freeway and State Highway status: from south of Grand Ridge Road to Port Welshpool in August 1990,[15] and from north of Grand Ridge Road to Morwell in September 1990[16] – replaced as a north–south route through South Gippsland by the recently-declared Strzelecki and Hyland Highways – and renamed into its current constituent parts (Monash Way, Budgeree Road, Woorarra Road and Port Welshpool Road), with the section between Wonyip and Albert River Road incorporated back into the Grand Ridge Road.[15][16]
The alignment of the highway through southern Ballarat was altered in May 1990: previously running north through Buninyong along Warrenheip Street, Geelong Road, Main Road and along the Western Highway to meet its northern half at Doveton Street North, it was re-aligned to its current route running west through Buninyong along Buninyong-Sebastopol Road via Sebastopol and then along Skipton Street and Doveton Street South (the former alignment of the Glenelg Highway, truncated back to Sebastopol at the same time) to meet its northern half directly at Sturt Street; the former alignment is now known as Ballarat-Buninyong Road (signed route C294 in 1998).[17]
The Midland Highway was signed as State Route 149 between Geelong and Benalla,[18] State Route 153 between Benalla and Barjang, Alternative State Route 153 between Barjang and Mansfield, and State Route 190 between Morwell and Port Welshpool in 1986; with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, this was replaced by route A300 between Geelong and Benalla, route B300 between Benalla and Barjang, and route C518 between Barjang and Mansfield; despite highway status being removed between Morwell and Port Welshpool, the former highway alignment continued to be signed as State Route 190 until the change-over to the new alphanumeric system, when all traces of the former route were removed. Midland Link Highway was signed State Route 153 between Barjang and Maindample in 1986, and was later replaced by route B300.
The passing of the Road Management Act 2004[19] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the Midland Link Highway (Arterial #6030) from Midland Highway in Barjang to Maroondah Highway in Maindample,[20] and in 2013 re-declared the Midland Highway to begin at Corio-Waurn Ponds Road (Princes Highway) in Geelong and end at the Maroondah Highway in Mansfield.[21]
Major intersections and towns
| LGA | Location[1][20][21] | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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| Greater Geelong | Geelong–Geelong West boundary | 0.0 | 0.0 |  Melbourne Road (A10/Tourist Drive 21 north) – Corio, Melbourne, Avalon Airport Kerra Street (A10/Tourist Drive 21 south) – City Centre, Colac | Southwestern terminus of highway and route A300 |
| Geelong West–Geelong North boundary | 0.3 | 0.19 | Geelong railway line | ||
| Geelong North–Hamlyn Heights boundary | 1.5 | 0.93 |  Shannon Avenue (C136 south) – Belmont, Ceres Thompsons Road (C136 north) – Norlane | Southbound left turn via Lily Avenue | |
| Hamlyn Heights–Bell Park–Bell Post Hill tripoint | 3.0 | 1.9 |  Anakie Road (C118) – Corio, Fyansford | ||
| Bell Post Hill–Batesford boundary | 4.5 | 2.8 |  Geelong Ring Road (M1) – Melbourne, Colac, Avalon Airport | ||
| Batesford | 6.1 | 3.8 |  Geelong–Ballan Road (C141) – Anakie, Ballan, Daylesford | ||
| Moorabool River | 8.7 | 5.4 | Batesford Bridge | ||
| Golden Plains | Gheringhap | 12.2 | 7.6 |  Fyansford–Gheringhap Road (C111) – Ceres, Mount Moriac | |
| 13.1 | 8.1 | Western SG and Geelong-Ballarat railway lines | |||
| Bannockburn | 17.1 | 10.6 |  Shelford–Bannockburn Road (C143) – Shelford | ||
| Meredith | 43.1 | 26.8 | Meredith-Steiglitz Road – Steiglitz | ||
| Moorabool | Elaine | 52.8 | 32.8 | Geelong-Ballarat railway line | |
| Ballarat | Buninyong | 73.2 | 45.5 |  Ballarat–Buninyong Road – Mount Clear, Ballarat East | |
| Magpie–Sebastopol | 79.0 | 49.1 |  Colac–Ballarat Road – Rokewood, Cressy, Colac | ||
| Sebastopol | 83.2 | 51.7 |  Glenelg Highway (B160 west) – Skipton, Hamilton, Mount GambierSayle Street (east)Sebastopol | ||
| Redan | 84.4 | 52.4 |  Drummond Street South – Ballarat, Lake Wendouree | No right turn from Midland Highway southbound | |
| 84.7 | 52.6 |  Ballarat–Carngham Road – Newington, Carngham | |||
| Ballarat | 86.3 | 53.6 | Sturt Street – Alfredton, Burrumbeet | ||
| 86.5 | 53.7 |  Mair Street (C805) – Ballarat East, Warrenheip | |||
| 87.7 | 54.5 | Macarthur Street, to Drummond Street North (C305) – Ballarat, Redan | |||
| 88.2 | 54.8 | Ararat railway line | |||
| Wendouree | 88.5 | 55.0 |  Howitt Street (C287 west, no shield east) – Clunes, Talbot, Maryborough | ||
| Wendouree–Mount Rowan boundary | 91.1 | 56.6 |  Western Freeway (M8) – Melbourne, Horsham, Bordertown, Adelaide | ||
| Ballarat–Hepburn boundary | Sulky | 97.1 | 60.3 | Mildura railway line | |
| Hepburn | Creswick | 103.6 | 64.4 |  Bungaree–Creswick Road (C291 south) – Bungaree, Wallace | Concurrency with route C291 |
| 104.5 | 64.9 | Clunes–Creswick Road (C291 north) – Clunes | |||
| Newlyn | 113.0 | 70.2 |  Daylesford–Ballarat Road (C292 south) – Clarkes Hill, Ballarat EastDean-Newlyn Road (east) – Dean | ||
| Daylesford | 131.1 | 81.5 |  Hepburn Springs Road (C138 north) – Hepburn Springs Hepburn Springs Road (C141 south) – Ballan, Anakie, Geelong | ||
| 132.3 | 82.2 |  Daylesford–Trentham Road (C317) – Trentham, Woodend | |||
| 133.4 | 82.9 |  Daylesford–Malmsbury Road (C316) – Denver, Malmsbury | |||
| Dry Diggings | 139.5 | 86.7 | Back Hepburn Road – Hepburn Springs | ||
| Mount Franklin | 143.7 | 89.3 |  Daylesford–Newstead Road – Newstead, Maldon | ||
| Mount Alexander | Guildford | 157.7 | 98.0 | Moolort railway line | |
| Castlemaine | 165.2 | 102.7 | Victorian Goldfields Railway | ||
| 165.3 | 102.7 |  Pyrenees Highway (B180 west) – Newstead, Maryborough, Ararat | Southern terminus of concurrency with route B180 | ||
| 167.2 | 103.9 | Bendigo railway line | |||
| 167.5 | 104.1 | Forest Street (B180 east, no route west) – Elphinstone | Northern terminus of concurrency with route B180 | ||
| 169.8 | 105.5 | Bendigo railway line | |||
| Barkers Creek–Harcourt boundary | 175.3 | 108.9 |  Calder Freeway (M79 south) – MelbourneVictoria Road (east) – Harcourt | Southern terminus of concurrency with route M79 | |
| Greater Bendigo | Ravenswood South–Harcourt North boundary | 181.0 | 112.5 | Fogartys Gap Road (west) – Maldon Harmony Way (east) – Harcourt, Elphinstone | At-grade intersection |
| Ravenswood | 189.3 | 117.6 |  Calder Alternative Highway (A790) – Marong, Mildura | Continues north as Calder Highway (route A79), south as Calder Freeway (route M79) | |
| Kangaroo Flat | 199.8 | 124.1 |  Bendigo–Maryborough Road (C277) – Maryborough | ||
| Golden Square | 201.8 | 125.4 |   Oak Street (C323 north/C353 south) – Long Gully, Eaglehawk, Quarry Hill, Strathdale | ||
| Bendigo | 204.4 | 127.0 |  Don Street (A79 north) – Marong Myrtle Street (C331 south) – Quarry Hill, Flora Hill | Northern terminus of concurrency with route A79 | |
| 205.9 | 127.9 |   Chapel Street (B280 south/C329 north) – California Gully, Axedale, Heathcote | |||
| 207.3 | 128.8 | Mildura railway line | |||
| White Hills | 209.2 | 130.0 |  Lyons Street (C333 west, no route east) – Long Gully | ||
| 209.9 | 130.4 |  Hamelin Street (C343 east, no route west) – Strathdale, Bendigo Airport | |||
| Huntly | 219.8 | 136.6 |  Bendigo–Tennyson Road (C338) – Drummartin, Mitiamo | ||
| Bagshot | 224.4 | 139.4 | Echuca railway line | ||
| Goornong | 239.5 | 148.8 |  Bendigo–Murchison Road (C345) – Murchison, Violet Town | ||
| Elmore | 251.1 | 156.0 |  Northern Highway (B75 north) – Rochester, Echuca | Western terminus of concurrency with route B75 | |
| Campaspe River | 251.5 | 156.3 | Elmore Bridge | ||
| Campaspe | Burnewang–Runnymede boundary | 252.7 | 157.0 | Northern Highway (B75 south) – Heathcote, Kilmore, Wallan | Eastern terminus of concurrency with route B75 |
| Corop | 269.0 | 167.1 |  Heathcote–Rochester Road (C347 north) – Rochester | Concurrency with route C347 | |
| 269.9 | 167.7 | Heathcote–Rochester Road (C347 south) – Heathcote | |||
| Stanhope | 288.3 | 179.1 |  Girgarre–Rushworth Road (C348) – Girgarre, Rushworth | ||
| Greater Shepparton | Byrneside | 305.8 | 190.0 |  Kyabram–Byrneside Road (C354) – Lancaster | |
| 307.4 | 191.0 | Toolamba-Echuca railway line | |||
| Tatura | 310.2 | 192.7 |  Tatura–Undera Road (C357) – Undera, Tatura | ||
| Mooroopna | 322.3 | 200.3 |  Echuca–Mooroopna Road (C355 north) – Wyuna Mooroopna-Murchison Road (C369 south) – Murchison | ||
| Goulburn River | 325.1 | 202.0 | Daintons Bridge | ||
| Greater Shepparton | Shepparton | 325.7 | 202.4 |  Goulburn Valley Highway (A39) – Tocumwal, Nagambie, Seymour | |
| 326.4 | 202.8 | Goulburn Valley railway line | |||
| 328.7 | 204.2 |  Doyles Road (C391) – Congupna, Kialla | |||
| Nalinga | 354.8 | 220.5 |  Dookie–Nalinga Road (C365) – Dookie | Concurrency with route C365 | |
| 356.4 | 221.5 | Dookie–Violet Town Road (C365) – Violet Town | |||
| Benalla | Benalla | 376.4 | 233.9 |  Benalla–Tocumwal Road (C371) – Katamatite, Tocumwal | |
| 385.8 | 239.7 | North East railway line | |||
| 386.5 | 240.2 |  Bridge Street East (C313) – Winton | |||
| 391.6 | 243.3 |  Hume Freeway (M31) – Melbourne, Wangaratta, Albury, Sydney | Route transition: route A300 north, route B300 south | ||
| Mansfield | Barjang | 434.6 | 270.0 |  Midland Link Highway (B300 southwest) – Maindample, Yarck | Route B300 continues southwest along Midland Link Highway, northern terminus of route C518 |
| Mansfield | 449.5 | 279.3 | High Street (B320 west) – Maindample, Yarck High Street (Mount Buller Road) (C320 east) – Mount Buller | Southern terminus of highway and route C518 | |
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also
References
- 1 2 3 Google (12 November 2021). "Midland Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "Country Roads Board Victoria. Twentieth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1933". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 10 November 1933. p. 4.
- ↑ "Country Roads Board Victoria. Fourteenth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1927". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 30 April 1928. pp. 45–6, 54, 59, 63.
- 1 2 "Country Roads Board Victoria. Thirty-Fifth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1948". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 1 November 1948. p. 7.
- 1 2 "Country Roads Board Victoria. Twenty-Sixth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1939". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 10 November 1939. p. 4, 14.
- 1 2 3 "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.
- ↑ "Road Construction Authority of Victoria. Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 1984". Road Construction Authority of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 21 December 1984. p. 54.
- ↑ "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 30 June 1983. p. 1973. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
- ↑ "Country Roads Board Victoria. Twenty-First Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1934". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 19 November 1934. p. 74.
- ↑ "Country Roads Board Victoria. Fifty-Ninth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1972". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 1 November 1972. p. 41.
- ↑ "Country Roads Board Victoria. Sixty-Second Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1975". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 3 November 1975. p. 51.
- ↑ "Country Roads Board Victoria. Sixty-Second Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1976". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 3 November 1976. p. 40.
- ↑ Google (3 December 2021). "Midland Highway, South Gippsland" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
- 1 2 "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 15 August 1990. pp. 2502–5. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
- 1 2 "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 12 September 1990. pp. 2746–50. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
- ↑ "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 2 May 1990. pp. 1216–9, 1225. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
- ↑ "Road Construction Authority of Victoria. Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 1986". Road Construction Authority of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 24 November 1986. p. 42.
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. p. 937. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- 1 2 VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. pp. 999–1001. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
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