Murray Valley Highway – Victoria | |
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Murray Valley Highway at Nathalia | |
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General information | |
Type | Highway |
Length | 663 km (412 mi) [3] |
Gazetted | November 1914 (as Main Road)
[1] September 1932 (as State Highway) [2] |
Route number(s) |
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Former route number | ![]() Entire route |
Major junctions | |
Northwest end | ![]() Euston, New South Wales |
Southeast end |
Alpine Way VIC/NSW border |
Location(s) | |
Region | Loddon Mallee, Hume [4] |
Major settlements | Robinvale, Swan Hill, Kerang, Echuca, Yarrawonga, Rutherglen, Wodonga, Tallangatta [5] |
Highway system | |
Murray Valley Highway is a 663-kilometre (412 mi) [3] rural highway located in Victoria (with a short western tail in New South Wales), Australia, between Euston, New South Wales and Corryong, Victoria. [6] The popular tourist route mostly follows the southern bank of the Murray River and effectively acts as the northernmost highway in Victoria. For all but the western end's last three kilometres, the highway is allocated route B400.
Murray Valley Highway commences at the intersection with Sturt Highway just outside Euston, New South Wales and heads south to cross the Murray River over the Robinvale-Euston bridge at Robinvale and into Victoria; the western end of route B400 starts here. The highway continues in a south-easterly direction, tracking close to the southern bank of the Murray River for the majority of its length through the towns of Swan Hill, Kerang, Cohuna, Echuca, Nathalia, Strathmerton, Cobram, Yarrawonga and Rutherglen, until it reaches Wodonga, before heading in an easterly direction via Tallangatta until it eventually terminates at the foothills of the Great Dividing Range at Corryong; the road beyond crosses the border east into New South Wales as Alpine Way, to eventually reach Khancoban and Jindabyne.
Most of the highway is fairly straight and flat, much of it through irrigated farmland. It becomes hillier and more winding east of Wodonga, with a moderately steep mountain pass near Shelley, midway between Tallangatta and Corryong.
Within Victoria, the passing of the Country Roads Act of 1912 [7] through the Parliament of Victoria provided for the establishment of the Country Roads Board (later VicRoads) and their ability to declare Main Roads, taking responsibility for the management, construction and care of the state's major roads from local municipalities. Murray (River) Valley Road was declared a Main Road on 30 November 1914, [1] from Bonegilla over Sandy Creek (later to become Lake Hume), through Bethanga and Granya, following the course of the Murray River, to Burrowye. Further sections were declared or built in the late 1920s and early 1930s by the Country Roads Board as part of a program of rural roads to facilitate development of the more remote parts of the state and provide connections between communities in addition to the roads and railways radiating out from Melbourne. Parts of the Murray River Valley Road included a stretch of newly-constructed road between Mildura and the South Australian border, opened in 1927. [8] [9] The eastern end of the road was re-aligned to run from Bethangra and Talgarno to Tallangatta and Bullioh, to accommodate the opening of Hume Dam and the filling of Lake Hume.
The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 [10] provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Country Roads Board. Murray Valley Highway was declared a State Highway in September 1932, [2] cobbled from a collection of existing and newly-constructed roads running along the southern bank of the Murray River from Corryong through Walwa, Wodonga, Rutherglen, Yarrawonga, Cobram, Echuca, Swan Hill and Bannerton to the intersection with Calder Highway in Hattah, and again from Mildura to the state border with South Australian [11] (for a total of 513 miles), and Renmark beyond, subsuming the original declaration of Murray River Valley Road as a Main Road, and also a section of Omeo Highway between Tallangatta and Wodonga; the northern end of Omeo Highway was truncated to Tallangatta as a result.
Sturt Highway was rerouted to reach Renmark through Victoria instead of via Wentworth in 1939, [12] subsuming the alignment of the Murray Valley Highway between Mildura and the state border with South Australia; it was subsequently truncated to terminate at Calder Highway in Hattah. Robinvale Road, a 2-mile road connecting the "irrigation settlement of Robinvale" to the highway, was declared a Main Road when it was surfaced for the first time in 1952, [13] and later declared a State Highway as Robinvale Highway on 9 May 1983, between Robinvale and Lake Powell. [14] [15]
The alignment was further altered at both ends in 1990:
The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 [18] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Murray Valley Highway (Arterial #6570), beginning at the New South Wales border at Robinvale and ending at the New South Wales border in Towong Upper. [6]
The passing of the Main Roads (Amendment) Act of 1929 [19] (which amended the original Main Roads Act of 1924 [20]) through the Parliament of New South Wales on 8 April 1929 provided for the declaration of State Highways, Trunk Roads and Main Roads, partially funded by the State government through the Main Roads Board (later the Department of Main Roads, and eventually Transport for NSW) in New South Wales. Main Road 583 was declared on 17 June 1959, from the intersection with State Highway 14 ( Sturt Highway) at Euston to the state border with Victoria north of Robinvale; [21] this declaration as a Main Road did not change when the road on the Victorian side of the bridge was declared a State Highway (as Robinvale Highway in 1983 and then Murray Valley Highway in 1990), despite adopting its name as Murray Valley Highway from the Victorian side of the road to remain contiguous. The road today, as Main Road 583, still retains this declaration. [22]
Murray Valley Highway was signed National Route 16 across its entire length in 1955. With Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, its former route number was replaced by route B400 for the highway within Victoria; the New South Wales section was left signed as National Route 16 until switching to their alphanumeric system in 2013, after which it was left unallocated. [23]
Major roadworks have recently taken place around Echuca and Moama and are continuing. The project is being built in four stages:
The project is due for completion in mid-2022. [24]
State | LGA | Location [3] [6] | km [3] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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New South Wales | Balranald | Euston | 0.0 | 0.0 | ![]() | Western terminus of Murray Valley Highway at T-intersection |
River Murray | 3 | 1.9 | Robinvale–Euston Bridge | |||
State border | 4 | 2.5 | New South Wales – Victoria state border | |||
Victoria | Swan Hill | Robinvale | ![]() | Western terminus of route B400 | ||
6 | 3.7 | ![]() | ||||
Tol Tol | 25 | 16 | ![]() | T-intersection | ||
Piangil | 93 | 58 | ![]() | Concurrency with route B12 | ||
95 | 59 | ![]() | ||||
Nyah | 110 | 68 | Speewah Road – Koraleigh | |||
Swan Hill | 135 | 84 | Piangil railway line | |||
137 | 85 | ![]() McCallum Street (east) – Moulamein, Deniliquin | Roundabout | |||
Castle Donnington | 142 | 88 | ![]() | |||
146 | 91 | Piangil railway line | ||||
Gannawarra | Kerang | 190 | 120 | |||
194 | 121 | ![]() ![]() | ||||
Loddon River | 195 | 121 | Patchell Bridge [25] | |||
Gannawarra | Kerang | 196 | 122 | ![]() ![]() | ||
199 | 124 | ![]() | ||||
200 | 120 | Piangil railway line | ||||
Cohuna | 227 | 141 | ![]() | |||
228 | 142 | ![]() | ||||
Leitchville | 243 | 151 | ![]() | |||
Campaspe | Echuca | 289 | 180 | ![]() | ||
291 | 181 | ![]() | Roundabout: western terminus of concurrency with route B75 | |||
Campaspe River | 291.5 | 181.1 | Bridge over the river (bridge name unknown) | |||
Campaspe | Echuca | 292 | 181 | ![]() | Eastern terminus of concurrency with route B75 | |
292.5 | 181.8 | Echuca railway line | ||||
293 | 182 | ![]() | ||||
Tongala | 312 | 194 | ![]() | |||
Wyuna | 321 | 199 | ![]() | |||
325 | 202 | ![]() | ||||
Goulburn River | 329 | 204 | Bridge over the river (bridge name unknown) | |||
Moira | Nathalia | 344 | 214 | ![]() | ||
347 | 216 | ![]() | ||||
Broken Creek | 349 | 217 | Bridge over the river (bridge name unknown) | |||
Moira | Strathmerton | 382 | 237 | ![]() | Western terminus of concurrency with route A39 | |
387 | 240 | Tocumwal railway line | ||||
Yarroweyah | 396 | 246 | ![]() | Eastern terminus of concurrency with route A39 | ||
Cobram | ![]() | |||||
400 | 250 | ![]() | ||||
409 | 254 | ![]() ![]() | ||||
Yarrawonga Main Channel | 437 | 272 | Bridge over the channel (bridge name unknown) | |||
Moira | Yarrawonga | 437 | 272 | ![]() | Concurrency with route C373 | |
438 | 272 | ![]() | ||||
Esmond | 457 | 284 | ![]() | |||
Ovens River | 459 | 285 | Parolas Bridge | |||
Indigo | Rutherglen | 480 | 300 | ![]() | ||
484 | 301 | ![]() | Concurrency with route C376 | |||
485 | 301 | ![]() | ||||
Browns Plains | 499 | 310 | ![]() | |||
Barnawartha | 505 | 314 | ![]() | |||
Barnawartha North | 510.5 | 317.2 | North East SG railway line | |||
511 | 318 | ![]() | Trumpet interchange; western terminus of concurrency with route M31 | |||
Wodonga | Wodonga | 527 | 327 | ![]() ![]() | Diamond interchange; eastern terminus of concurrency with route M31 | |
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528 | 328 | Beechworth Road – Beechworth, Wangaratta | ||||
531 | 330 | ![]() | ||||
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Bandiana | 533 | 331 | ![]() | |||
Kiewa River | 536 | 333 | Bridge over the river (bridge name unknown) | |||
Wodonga | Bonegilla | 541 | 336 | ![]() | ||
Towong | Huon | 556 | 345 | ![]() | ||
Tallangatta | 574 | 357 | ![]() | |||
Mitta Mitta River | 579 | 360 | Bridge over the river (bridge name unknown) | |||
Towong | Bullio | 584 | 363 | ![]() | ||
Shelley | 611 | 380 | ![]() | |||
Cudgewa | 633 | 393 | ![]() | |||
Colac Colac | 643 | 400 | ![]() | |||
Towong | 656 | 408 | ![]() | |||
Upper Towong | 663 | 412 | ![]() | Eastern terminus of highway and route B400 | ||
State border | Victoria – New South Wales state border | |||||
New South Wales | Murray River | Bringenbrong Bridge | ||||
Snowy Valleys | Bringenbrong | Alpine Way – Khancoban, Thredbo, Jindabyne | Western terminus of Alpine Way | |||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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Murray Valley Highway – Victoria | |
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Murray Valley Highway at Nathalia | |
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Coordinates |
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General information | |
Type | Highway |
Length | 663 km (412 mi) [3] |
Gazetted | November 1914 (as Main Road)
[1] September 1932 (as State Highway) [2] |
Route number(s) |
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Former route number | ![]() Entire route |
Major junctions | |
Northwest end | ![]() Euston, New South Wales |
Southeast end |
Alpine Way VIC/NSW border |
Location(s) | |
Region | Loddon Mallee, Hume [4] |
Major settlements | Robinvale, Swan Hill, Kerang, Echuca, Yarrawonga, Rutherglen, Wodonga, Tallangatta [5] |
Highway system | |
Murray Valley Highway is a 663-kilometre (412 mi) [3] rural highway located in Victoria (with a short western tail in New South Wales), Australia, between Euston, New South Wales and Corryong, Victoria. [6] The popular tourist route mostly follows the southern bank of the Murray River and effectively acts as the northernmost highway in Victoria. For all but the western end's last three kilometres, the highway is allocated route B400.
Murray Valley Highway commences at the intersection with Sturt Highway just outside Euston, New South Wales and heads south to cross the Murray River over the Robinvale-Euston bridge at Robinvale and into Victoria; the western end of route B400 starts here. The highway continues in a south-easterly direction, tracking close to the southern bank of the Murray River for the majority of its length through the towns of Swan Hill, Kerang, Cohuna, Echuca, Nathalia, Strathmerton, Cobram, Yarrawonga and Rutherglen, until it reaches Wodonga, before heading in an easterly direction via Tallangatta until it eventually terminates at the foothills of the Great Dividing Range at Corryong; the road beyond crosses the border east into New South Wales as Alpine Way, to eventually reach Khancoban and Jindabyne.
Most of the highway is fairly straight and flat, much of it through irrigated farmland. It becomes hillier and more winding east of Wodonga, with a moderately steep mountain pass near Shelley, midway between Tallangatta and Corryong.
Within Victoria, the passing of the Country Roads Act of 1912 [7] through the Parliament of Victoria provided for the establishment of the Country Roads Board (later VicRoads) and their ability to declare Main Roads, taking responsibility for the management, construction and care of the state's major roads from local municipalities. Murray (River) Valley Road was declared a Main Road on 30 November 1914, [1] from Bonegilla over Sandy Creek (later to become Lake Hume), through Bethanga and Granya, following the course of the Murray River, to Burrowye. Further sections were declared or built in the late 1920s and early 1930s by the Country Roads Board as part of a program of rural roads to facilitate development of the more remote parts of the state and provide connections between communities in addition to the roads and railways radiating out from Melbourne. Parts of the Murray River Valley Road included a stretch of newly-constructed road between Mildura and the South Australian border, opened in 1927. [8] [9] The eastern end of the road was re-aligned to run from Bethangra and Talgarno to Tallangatta and Bullioh, to accommodate the opening of Hume Dam and the filling of Lake Hume.
The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 [10] provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Country Roads Board. Murray Valley Highway was declared a State Highway in September 1932, [2] cobbled from a collection of existing and newly-constructed roads running along the southern bank of the Murray River from Corryong through Walwa, Wodonga, Rutherglen, Yarrawonga, Cobram, Echuca, Swan Hill and Bannerton to the intersection with Calder Highway in Hattah, and again from Mildura to the state border with South Australian [11] (for a total of 513 miles), and Renmark beyond, subsuming the original declaration of Murray River Valley Road as a Main Road, and also a section of Omeo Highway between Tallangatta and Wodonga; the northern end of Omeo Highway was truncated to Tallangatta as a result.
Sturt Highway was rerouted to reach Renmark through Victoria instead of via Wentworth in 1939, [12] subsuming the alignment of the Murray Valley Highway between Mildura and the state border with South Australia; it was subsequently truncated to terminate at Calder Highway in Hattah. Robinvale Road, a 2-mile road connecting the "irrigation settlement of Robinvale" to the highway, was declared a Main Road when it was surfaced for the first time in 1952, [13] and later declared a State Highway as Robinvale Highway on 9 May 1983, between Robinvale and Lake Powell. [14] [15]
The alignment was further altered at both ends in 1990:
The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 [18] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Murray Valley Highway (Arterial #6570), beginning at the New South Wales border at Robinvale and ending at the New South Wales border in Towong Upper. [6]
The passing of the Main Roads (Amendment) Act of 1929 [19] (which amended the original Main Roads Act of 1924 [20]) through the Parliament of New South Wales on 8 April 1929 provided for the declaration of State Highways, Trunk Roads and Main Roads, partially funded by the State government through the Main Roads Board (later the Department of Main Roads, and eventually Transport for NSW) in New South Wales. Main Road 583 was declared on 17 June 1959, from the intersection with State Highway 14 ( Sturt Highway) at Euston to the state border with Victoria north of Robinvale; [21] this declaration as a Main Road did not change when the road on the Victorian side of the bridge was declared a State Highway (as Robinvale Highway in 1983 and then Murray Valley Highway in 1990), despite adopting its name as Murray Valley Highway from the Victorian side of the road to remain contiguous. The road today, as Main Road 583, still retains this declaration. [22]
Murray Valley Highway was signed National Route 16 across its entire length in 1955. With Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, its former route number was replaced by route B400 for the highway within Victoria; the New South Wales section was left signed as National Route 16 until switching to their alphanumeric system in 2013, after which it was left unallocated. [23]
Major roadworks have recently taken place around Echuca and Moama and are continuing. The project is being built in four stages:
The project is due for completion in mid-2022. [24]
State | LGA | Location [3] [6] | km [3] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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New South Wales | Balranald | Euston | 0.0 | 0.0 | ![]() | Western terminus of Murray Valley Highway at T-intersection |
River Murray | 3 | 1.9 | Robinvale–Euston Bridge | |||
State border | 4 | 2.5 | New South Wales – Victoria state border | |||
Victoria | Swan Hill | Robinvale | ![]() | Western terminus of route B400 | ||
6 | 3.7 | ![]() | ||||
Tol Tol | 25 | 16 | ![]() | T-intersection | ||
Piangil | 93 | 58 | ![]() | Concurrency with route B12 | ||
95 | 59 | ![]() | ||||
Nyah | 110 | 68 | Speewah Road – Koraleigh | |||
Swan Hill | 135 | 84 | Piangil railway line | |||
137 | 85 | ![]() McCallum Street (east) – Moulamein, Deniliquin | Roundabout | |||
Castle Donnington | 142 | 88 | ![]() | |||
146 | 91 | Piangil railway line | ||||
Gannawarra | Kerang | 190 | 120 | |||
194 | 121 | ![]() ![]() | ||||
Loddon River | 195 | 121 | Patchell Bridge [25] | |||
Gannawarra | Kerang | 196 | 122 | ![]() ![]() | ||
199 | 124 | ![]() | ||||
200 | 120 | Piangil railway line | ||||
Cohuna | 227 | 141 | ![]() | |||
228 | 142 | ![]() | ||||
Leitchville | 243 | 151 | ![]() | |||
Campaspe | Echuca | 289 | 180 | ![]() | ||
291 | 181 | ![]() | Roundabout: western terminus of concurrency with route B75 | |||
Campaspe River | 291.5 | 181.1 | Bridge over the river (bridge name unknown) | |||
Campaspe | Echuca | 292 | 181 | ![]() | Eastern terminus of concurrency with route B75 | |
292.5 | 181.8 | Echuca railway line | ||||
293 | 182 | ![]() | ||||
Tongala | 312 | 194 | ![]() | |||
Wyuna | 321 | 199 | ![]() | |||
325 | 202 | ![]() | ||||
Goulburn River | 329 | 204 | Bridge over the river (bridge name unknown) | |||
Moira | Nathalia | 344 | 214 | ![]() | ||
347 | 216 | ![]() | ||||
Broken Creek | 349 | 217 | Bridge over the river (bridge name unknown) | |||
Moira | Strathmerton | 382 | 237 | ![]() | Western terminus of concurrency with route A39 | |
387 | 240 | Tocumwal railway line | ||||
Yarroweyah | 396 | 246 | ![]() | Eastern terminus of concurrency with route A39 | ||
Cobram | ![]() | |||||
400 | 250 | ![]() | ||||
409 | 254 | ![]() ![]() | ||||
Yarrawonga Main Channel | 437 | 272 | Bridge over the channel (bridge name unknown) | |||
Moira | Yarrawonga | 437 | 272 | ![]() | Concurrency with route C373 | |
438 | 272 | ![]() | ||||
Esmond | 457 | 284 | ![]() | |||
Ovens River | 459 | 285 | Parolas Bridge | |||
Indigo | Rutherglen | 480 | 300 | ![]() | ||
484 | 301 | ![]() | Concurrency with route C376 | |||
485 | 301 | ![]() | ||||
Browns Plains | 499 | 310 | ![]() | |||
Barnawartha | 505 | 314 | ![]() | |||
Barnawartha North | 510.5 | 317.2 | North East SG railway line | |||
511 | 318 | ![]() | Trumpet interchange; western terminus of concurrency with route M31 | |||
Wodonga | Wodonga | 527 | 327 | ![]() ![]() | Diamond interchange; eastern terminus of concurrency with route M31 | |
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528 | 328 | Beechworth Road – Beechworth, Wangaratta | ||||
531 | 330 | ![]() | ||||
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Bandiana | 533 | 331 | ![]() | |||
Kiewa River | 536 | 333 | Bridge over the river (bridge name unknown) | |||
Wodonga | Bonegilla | 541 | 336 | ![]() | ||
Towong | Huon | 556 | 345 | ![]() | ||
Tallangatta | 574 | 357 | ![]() | |||
Mitta Mitta River | 579 | 360 | Bridge over the river (bridge name unknown) | |||
Towong | Bullio | 584 | 363 | ![]() | ||
Shelley | 611 | 380 | ![]() | |||
Cudgewa | 633 | 393 | ![]() | |||
Colac Colac | 643 | 400 | ![]() | |||
Towong | 656 | 408 | ![]() | |||
Upper Towong | 663 | 412 | ![]() | Eastern terminus of highway and route B400 | ||
State border | Victoria – New South Wales state border | |||||
New South Wales | Murray River | Bringenbrong Bridge | ||||
Snowy Valleys | Bringenbrong | Alpine Way – Khancoban, Thredbo, Jindabyne | Western terminus of Alpine Way | |||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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