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Wimmera Highway

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Wimmera Highway

Victoria
–South Australia
Wimmera Highway passing through Rupanyup
Wimmera Highway is located in Victoria
East end
East end
West end
West end
Coordinates
General information
TypeHighway
Length346.1 km (215 mi)[3]
GazettedMarch 1915 (as Main Road)[1]
1959/60 (as State Highway)[2]
Route number(s)
  • B240 (2003–present)
    (Marong–VIC/SA border)
  • C240 (1998–present)
    (VIC/SA border–Naracoorte)
Former
route number
  • C240 (1998–2003)
    (Marong–VIC/SA border)
  • State Route 130 (1986–1998)
    (St Arnaud–Naracoorte)
Major junctions
East end Calder Alternative Highway
Marong, Victoria
 
West endLucindale Road
Naracoorte, South Australia
Location(s)
RegionLimestone Coast,[4] Grampians, Loddon Mallee[5]
Major settlementsNewbridge, St Arnaud, Rupanyup, Murtoa, Horsham, Natimuk, Edenhope, Apsley
Highway system

Wimmera Highway is a 345 kilometre rural highway that runs predominately through the Wimmera region of western Victoria, after which the highway is named. It links the towns of Marong, Victoria, just to the west of the major regional centre of Bendigo in Victoria, and Naracoorte, in the south-eastern corner of South Australia.[6]

Route

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Wimmera Highway commences at the intersection with Calder Alternative Highway in Marong and heads in a westerly direction as a two-lane, single carriageway rural highway to Newbridge, where it crosses the Loddon River, and continues westwards until it meets Sunraysia Highway in St Arnaud. It continues west through Rupanyup until it reaches Henty Highway in Dooen, where it forms a concurrency with it and heads southwest into the regional city of Horsham, where it meets Western Highway. It continues in a south-westerly direction on its own alignment through Edenhope, before it crosses the interstate border into South Australia and eventually terminates at the intersection with Riddoch Highway in Naracoorte.

History

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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. Horsham-Natimuk(-Edenhope) Road from Horsham to the southern end of Karnak, Edenhope-Goroke Road from the southern end of Karnak to Edenhope (and continuing north to Goroke), and Hamilton-Edenhope-Aspley Road from Edenhope through Aspley to the South Australian border (and continuing east to Harrow), were declared Main Roads on 17 March 1915;[1] and Rupanyup–Murtoa Road between Rupanyup to Murtoa was declared a Main Road on 28 May 1915.[8]

The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924[9] provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Country Roads Board. Wimmera Highway was declared a State Highway in the 1959/60 financial year,[2] from St Arnaud via Rupanyup, Horsham and Edenhope to the South Australian border (for a total of 146 miles), subsuming the original declarations of Rupanyup–Murtoa Road, Horsham-Natimuk-Edenhope Road, Edenhope-Goroke Road (between Karnak and Edenhope) and Hamilton-Edenhope-Aspley Road (between Edenhope and the SA border) as Main Roads; before this declaration, these roads were also referred to as Horsham–Murtoa Road, Marnoo–St Arnaud Road and Navarre Road.[2] The highway was extended a further 90km east (along the former Bendigo–St Arnaud Road[10]) 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.[10]

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[11] 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.[6]

Major intersections

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StateLGA[12]Location[3][6][13]km[3]miDestinationsNotes
VictoriaGreater BendigoMarong0.00.0 Calder Alternative Highway (A790) – Bendigo, RavenswoodEastern terminus of highway and route B240
LoddonNewbridge20.012.4 Bridgewater–Maldon Road (C282 north) – BridgewaterConcurrency with route C282
21.013.0 Bridgewater–Maldon Road (C282 south) – Maldon
Wimmera River21.713.5Bridge name unknown
LoddonLlanelly26.016.2 Bridgewater–Dunolly Road (C274 north) – BridgewaterConcurrency with route C274
Tarnagulla30.118.7 Bridgewater–Dunolly Road (C274 south) – Dunolly
31.819.8Robinvale railway line
Moliagul46.328.8 Dunolly–Moliagul Road (C278) – Dunolly
Logan67.541.9 Logan–Wedderburn Road (C273) – Wedderburn
Avoca River69.443.1Bridge name unknown
Northern GrampiansSt Arnaud89.555.6 Sunraysia Highway (B220 south) – Donald, OuyenConcurrency with route B220
90.356.1 Sunraysia Highway (B220 north) – Avoca, Ballarat
90.756.4Mildura railway line
95.759.5 Ararat–St Arnaud Road (C241) – Ararat
Marnoo129.380.3 Donald–Stawell Road – Donald, Stawell
Rupanyup151.994.4 Stawell–Warracknabeal Road (B210 south) – StawellConcurrency with route B210
153.395.3 Stawell–Warracknabeal Road (B210 north) – Warracknabeal
YarriambiackMurtoa167.3104.0Western SG railway line
168.1104.5 Murtoa–Glenorchy Road (C237 south) – GlenorchyConcurrency with route C237
168.6104.8 Donald–Murtoa Road (C237 north) – Minyip
HorshamJung183.5114.0Western SG railway line
Dooen187.9116.8 Henty Highway (B200 north) – Warracknabeal, HopetounNorthern terminus of concurrency with route B200
189.9118.0Western SG railway line
Horsham197.8122.9 Western Highway (A8 west) – Nhill, BordertownSouthern terminus of concurrency with route B200
Northern terminus of concurrency with routes A8/A200
198.4123.3 Western Highway (A8/200 south) – Stawell, Ballarat,
to Henty Highway (A200 south) – Branxholme, Portland		Southern terminus of concurrency with routes A8/A200
Vectis208.3129.4 Horsham–Noradjuha Road (C214) – Toolondo
Wimmera River218.6135.8Bridge name unknown
HorshamNatimuk220.4137.0 Natimuk–Hamilton Road (C219) – Toolondo, Balmoral
223.8139.1 Natimuk–Frances Road (C213) – Goroke
West WimmeraMiga Lake253.3157.4 Nhill–Harrow Road (C206) – Nhill, Harrow
Edenhope289.5179.9 Kaniva–Edenhope Road (C208 north) – KanivaConcurrency with route C208
291.4181.1 Coleraine–Edenhope Road (C208 south) – Harrow, Casterton
297.2184.7 Edenhope–Penola Road (C212) – Langkoop
Aspley313.4194.7 Casterton–Naracoorte Road (C211) – Langkoop, Casterton
323.3200.9 Wimmera Highway (B240)Western terminus of route B240
State borderVictoria – South Australia state border
South AustraliaNaracoorte LucindaleHynam Wimmera Highway (C240)Eastern terminus of route C240
334.8208.0Frances Road – Frances
Naracoorte346.1215.1 Riddoch Highway (A66 north, south) – Mount Gambier, Keith
Lucindale Road (west) – Lucindale, RobeWestern terminus of highway and route C240 at roundabout
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 24 March 1915. pp. 1099–1100, 1102. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "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.
  3. ^ a b c "Wimmera Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  4. ^ "Location SA Map viewer with regional layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  5. ^ "Victoria's Regions". Regional Development Victoria. Victoria State Government. 11 August 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  6. ^ a b c VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads 2024" (PDF). Government of Victoria. p. 902. Archived from the original on 19 June 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  7. ^ An Act relating to Country Roads State of Victoria, 23 December 1912
  8. ^ "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 9 June 1915. p. 2028. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  9. ^ An Act to make further provision with respect to Highways and Country Roads Motor Cars and Traction Engines and for other purposes State of Victoria, 30 December 1924
  10. ^ a b "VicRoads Annual Report 1995-96". VicRoads. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 18 October 1996. p. 16.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ "Location SA Map viewer with LGA layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  13. ^ "Location SA Map viewer with suburb layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
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