Wimmera Highway

Wimmera Highway Victoria –South Australia

Wimmera Highway passing through Rupanyup

General information
Type	Highway
Length	345 km (214 mi)^[1]
Opened	1960
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
	Sunraysia Highway Henty Highway Western Highway
West end	Riddoch Highway Naracoorte, South Australia
Location(s)
Region	Limestone Coast,^[2] Grampians^[3]
Major settlements	Newbridge, St Arnaud, Rupanyup, Murtoa, Horsham, Natimuk, Edenhope, Apsley
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in Victoria Highways in South Australia

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.

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History

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

State	LGA^[9]	Location^[1]^[8]^[10]	km^[1]	mi	Destinations	Notes
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
		Newbridge	21	13	Bridgewater–Maldon Road (C282) – Maldon	Concurrency with route C282
		Llanelly	26	16	Bridgewater–Dunolly Road (C274) – Bridgewater	Concurrency with route C274
		Tarnagulla	30	19	Bridgewater–Dunolly Road (C274) – Dunolly	Concurrency with route C274
		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	Concurrency with route B220
			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
		Rupanyup	153	95	Stawell–Warracknabeal Road (B210) – Warracknabeal	Concurrency with route B210
	Yarriambiack	Murtoa	168	104	Murtoa–Glenorchy Road (C237) – Glenorchy	Concurrency with route C237
	Yarriambiack	Murtoa	169	105	Donald–Murtoa Road (C237) – Minyip	Concurrency with route C237
	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
		Horsham	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
		Natimuk	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	Concurrency with route C208
			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
South Australia	Naracoorte Lucindale	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 Concurrency terminus Route transition

References

^ ^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

Media related to Wimmera Highway at Wikimedia Commons

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