Mallee Highway

Mallee Highway South Australia –Victoria

General information
Type	Highway
Length	374 km (232 mi)^[1]
Opened	1947 (as Ouyen Highway) 1990 (as Mallee Highway)
Route number(s)	B12 (1997/1998–present)
Former route number	National Route 12 (1955–1997/1998)
Major junctions
West end	Dukes Highway Tailem Bend, South Australia
	Ngarkat Highway Browns Well Highway Calder Highway Murray Valley Highway
East end	Tooleybuc Road VIC/NSW border
Location(s)
Region	Murray and Mallee,^[2] Loddon Mallee^[3]
Major settlements	Lameroo, Pinnaroo, Murrayville, Walpeup, Ouyen, Manangatang
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in South Australia Highways in Victoria

Mallee Highway^[4] (formerly Ouyen Highway in Victoria) is a highway in south-eastern South Australia and north-western Victoria, running mostly across the Mallee plains. It forms part of the shortest route between Adelaide and Sydney.

Route

Mallee Highway begins at the intersection with Dukes Highway just south-east of Tailem Bend in South Australia. It runs east as a dual-lane, single-carriageway road, through cereal-growing farmland at the southern end of the Murray Mallee to Pinnaroo near the border with Victoria. There, it crosses the Ngarkat and Browns Well Highways.

It continues east into Victoria through Ouyen, where it crosses the Calder Highway, travels to Manangatang and eventually to Piangil, where it meets with the Murray Valley Highway. It continues along Tooleybuc Road two kilometres to the north where it continues east, until it meets the New South Wales border and the Murray River at Tooleybuc, where the highway officially ends. The road continues through New South Wales, eventually meeting the Sturt Highway at Balranald.

History

The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924^[5] 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, now VicRoads. The Ouyen Highway was declared a State Highway within Victoria in the 1947/48 financial year,^[6] from the Calder Highway at Ouyen via Murrayville to the South Australian border (for a total of 81 miles); before this declaration, the roads were referred to as Ouyen–Pinnaroo Road.^[7]

With the passing of the Transport Act of 1983,^[8] itself an evolution from the original Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924, the name was later changed to the Mallee Highway and extended east along the former Ouyen–Piangil Road and Tooleybuc Road to Piangil in December 1990.^[9]

The highway was signed as National Route 12 between Tailem Bend and Ouyen in 1955, later extended with the road to Piangil in 1990. With both states' conversion to their newer alphanumeric systems in the late 1990s, its former route number was updated to B12 in 1997 within Victoria, and in 1998 in South Australia.

The passing of the Road Management Act 2004^[10] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Mallee Highway (Arterial #6650), beginning at the South Australian border at Panitya and ending at the New South Wales border in Piangil.^[11]

Major intersections and towns

State	LGA^[12]	Location^[1]^[11]^[13]	km^[1]	mi	Destinations	Notes
South Australia	The Coorong	Tailem Bend	0.0	0.0	Dukes Highway (A8) – Adelaide, Keith, Bordertown, Melbourne	Western terminus of highway and route B12
		Moorlands	14.5	9.0	Old Dukes Highway – Coomandook
		Sherlock	29.7	18.5	Kulkawurra Road (north) – Karoonda Tynan Road (south) – Yumali
	Southern Mallee	Lameroo	98.5	61.2	Billiat Road – Alawoona	Roundabout
		Pinnaroo	132.7	82.5	Ngarkat Highway (B57 south) – Bordertown, Naracoorte	Concurrency with route B57
		Pinnaroo	139.3	86.6	Browns Well Highway (B57 north) – Loxton, Renmark	Concurrency with route B57
State border			145.0	90.1	South Australia – Victoria state border
Victoria	Mildura	Panitya	148.4	92.2	Panitya Road – Panitya
		Murrayville	166.4	103.4	Murrayville–Nhill Road – Nhill
		Boinka	205.9	127.9	Boinka South Road – Tutye
		Underbool	226.3	140.6	Underbool–Patchewollock Road – Patchewollock
		Walpeup	246.1	152.9	Walpeup–Patchewollock Road (C247) – Patchewollock, Hopetoun
		Ouyen	273.0	169.6	Ouyen–Patchewollock Road – Patchewollock, Hopetoun
			275.3	171.1	Calder Highway (A79 south) – Ballarat, Bendigo, Melbourne	Concurrency with route A79
			275.5	171.2	Calder Highway (A79 north) – Red Cliffs, Mildura	Concurrency with route A79
	Swan Hill	Manangatang	330.0	205.1	Robinvale–Sea Lake Road (C251) – Robinvale, Sea Lake
		Piangil	371.1	230.6	Murray Valley Highway (B400 south) – Swan Hill, Melbourne	Concurrency with route B12
			373.0	231.8	Murray Valley Highway (B400 north) – Robinvale	Concurrency with route B12
			374.4	232.6	Tooleybuc Road – Tooleybuc, Balranald	Eastern terminus of highway and route B12; road continues as Yanga Way to Balranald
State border					Victoria – New South Wales state border
New South Wales	Murray River				Tooleybuc Bridge
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus Route transition

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Google (12 October 2021). "Mallee Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 12 October 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.
^ Mallee Highway Touring Route, Design Train. Retrieved on 15 September 2013.
^ 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. 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.
^ "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. 99.
^ State of Victoria, An Act to Re-enact with Amendments the Law relating to Transport including the Law with respect to Railways, Roads and Tramways... 23 June 1983
^ "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 19 December 1990. pp. 3783, 3787, 3793. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
^ 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)" (PDF). Government of Victoria. p. 992. 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

Media related to Mallee Highway at Wikimedia Commons

v t e Road infrastructure in South Australia
Expressways	South Eastern Freeway Port River Expressway Northern Expressway North–South Motorway (incomplete, under construction) Southern Expressway
Interstate highways	Barrier Highway Dukes Highway Eyre Highway Mallee Highway Princes Highway Stuart Highway Sturt Highway
State highways	Augusta Highway Gawler Bypass Horrocks Highway Main South Road Port Wakefield Highway Riddoch Highway Victor Harbor Road
Arterial roads	Adelaide–Mannum Road Alexandrina Road Barossa Valley Way Birdseye Highway Browns Well Highway Cameron Highway Copper Coast Highway Flinders Highway Flinders Ranges Way Glenelg Highway Gorge Road Goyder Highway Horrocks Highway Karoonda Highway Lincoln Highway Ngarkat Highway Olympic Dam Highway Onkaparinga Valley Road Playford Highway RM Williams Way Southern Ports Highway Spencer Highway St Vincent Highway Stott Highway Strathalbyn Road The Outback Highway Thiele Highway Tod Highway Wellington Road Wilkins Highway Wilmington–Ucolta Road Wimmera Highway Yorke Highway
Outback tracks	Anne Beadell Highway Birdsville Track Colson Track Gunbarrel Highway Maralinga to Emu Road Mount Davies Road Oodnadatta Track Strzelecki Track Vokes Hill Corner to Cook Road
Transport in South Australia; List of road routes in South Australia

v t e Road infrastructure in Victoria
Freeways	Calder Freeway Goulburn Valley Freeway Hume Freeway Princes Freeway (Geelong Ring Road) Western Freeway
Highways	Bass Highway Bellarine Highway Borung Highway Burwood Highway Calder Highway Calder Alternative Highway Glenelg Highway Goulburn Valley Highway Hamilton Highway Henty Highway Hopkins Highway Hyland Highway Kiewa Valley Highway Loddon Valley Highway Mallee Highway Maroondah Highway McIvor Highway Melba Highway Midland Highway Monaro Highway Murray Valley Highway Nepean Highway Northern Highway Omeo Highway Princes Highway Pyrenees Highway South Gippsland Highway Strzelecki Highway Sturt Highway Sunraysia Highway Surf Coast Highway Warburton Highway Western Highway Western Port Highway Wimmera Highway
Bypass routes	Old Hume Highway Old Princes Highway
Tourist routes	Great Alpine Road Great Ocean Road Murray Valley Highway Phillip Island Road

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