Murray Valley Highway

The Murray Valley Highway is a 663-kilometre (412 mi)[1] state highway located in Victoria and New South Wales, Australia.[3][4] For the vast majority of the highway's length, the route is designated as B400.

Murray Valley Highway New South Wales –Victoria
Murray Valley Highway at Nathalia
General information
Type	Highway
Length	663 km (412 mi)[1]
Route number(s)	None (Within New South Wales) B400 (Within Victoria)
Former route number	National Route 16 (1955–1998) (Vic.) (1955–2013) (NSW) Entire route
Major junctions
NW end	Sturt Highway Euston, New South Wales
	Mallee Highway Loddon Valley Highway Northern Highway Goulburn Valley Highway Hume Freeway Kiewa Valley Highway Omeo Highway for full list see major intersections
SE end	Alpine Way NSW/Vic border east of Towong, Victoria
Location(s)
Major settlements	Robinvale, Swan Hill, Kerang, Echuca, Yarrawonga, Rutherglen, Wodonga, Tallangatta[2]
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in New South Wales Highways in Victoria

Route

The western terminus of the Murray Valley Highway at Euston, New South Wales.

The eastern terminus of the Murray Valley Highway at the Bringenbrong Bridge near Corryong, Victoria.

The Murray Valley Road was built in the late 1920s and early 1930s by the Country Roads Board of Victoria 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. It is one of a number of roads designated as a State Highway in 1933.[5] At that time, the highway ran from Corryong to the South Australian border. The western end of this route is now part of the Sturt Highway.

The popular tourist route follows the south side of the Murray River and effectively acts as the northernmost highway in Victoria. The western end of route B400 is the Murray River bridge at Robinvale, although the Murray Valley Highway crosses that bridge without the B400 designation (formerly as National Route 16[6]) to connect with the Sturt Highway 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) further north. Historically, the Murray Valley Highway continued west to connect with the Calder Highway at Hattah instead of crossing the river. The eastern end is in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range at Corryong. The alignment of the eastern end changed in the 1980s; whereby the highway used to go through Thologolong, Walwa and Towong (the current Murray River Road C546).[6]

The route also extends further east and crosses the border into New South Wales as the Alpine Way.

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 Koetong, between Tallangatta and Corryong.

The major towns along the route are Robinvale, Swan Hill, Kerang, Cohuna, Echuca, Nathalia, Strathmerton, Cobram, Yarrawonga, Rutherglen, Wodonga, Tallangatta and Corryong.

Major intersections and towns

State	LGA	Location	km[1]	mi	Destinations	Notes
New South Wales	Balranald	Euston	0	0.0	Sturt Highway (A20) [west]  – Mildura, Renmark and Adelaide; Sturt Highway (A20) [east]  – Balranald, Hay and Sydney	T-intersection; western terminus; road continues southwest and northeast as the
	River Murray		3	1.9	Robinvale Bridge
New South Wales – Victoria state border			4	2.5	New South Wales – Victoria state border	western terminus
Victoria	Swan Hill	Robinvale	6	3.7	Robinvale-Sea Lake Road (C251) – Manangatang, Sea Lake
		Tol Tol	25	16	Hattah-Robinvale Road (C252) – Hattah	T-intersection
		Piangil	93	58	Tooleybuc Road (B12) – Tooleybuc, Balranald, Sydney
			95	59	Mallee Highway (B12) – Ouyen, Adelaide	T-intersection
		Nyah	110	68	Speewah Road – Koraleigh
		Swan Hill	137	85	Sea Lake-Swan Hill Road (C246) – Swan Hill, Sea Lake; Moulamein Road (C246) – Moulamein, Deniliquin	Roundabout
		Castle Donnington	142	88	Donald-Swan Hill Road (C261) – Wycheproof, Donald
	Gannawarra	Kerang	194	121	Kerang-Quambatook Road (C262) – Quambatook /  – Boort
	Loddon River		195	121	Patchell Bridge[7]
	Gannawarra	Kerang	196	122	Kerang-Koondrook Road (C264) – Koondrook /  – Murrabit
			199	124	Loddon Valley Highway (B260) – Bendigo, Melbourne
		Cohuna	227	141	Cohuna-Koondrook Road (C265) – Koondrook, Barham
			228	142	Cohuna-Leitchville Road (C267) – Leitchville
		Leitchville	243	151	Kerang-Leitchville Road (C257) – Leitchville, Pyramid Hill
	Campaspe	Echuca	289	180	Warren Street (C349) – Echuca, Moama
			291	181	Northern Highway (B75) – Rochester, Bendigo, Melbourne	Roundabout: western concurrency terminus with
	Campaspe River		291.5	181.1	Bridge over the river (bridge name unknown)
	Campaspe	Echuca	292	181	Northern Highway (B75) – Echuca, Moama, Deniliquin	Eastern concurrency terminus with
			293	182	Echuca-Kyabram Road (C351) – Kyabram
		Tongala	312	194	Kyabram-Tongala Road (C352) – Tongala, Kyabram
		Wyuna	321	199	John Allen Road (C359) – Kyabram
			325	202	Echuca-Mooroopna Road (C355) – Shepparton
	Goulburn River		329	204	Bridge over the river (bridge name unknown)
	Moira	Nathalia	344	214	Barmah-Shepparton Road (C358) – Shepparton, Barmah
			347	216	Katamatite-Nathalia Road (C361) – Numurkah, Katamatite
	Broken Creek		349	217	Bridge over the river (bridge name unknown)
	Moira	Strathmerton	382	237	Goulburn Valley Highway (A39) – Numurkah, Shepparton, Melbourne	Western concurrency terminus
		Yarroweyah	396	246	Goulburn Valley Highway (A39) – Tocumwal, Brisbane	Eastern concurrency terminus
		Cobram			Benalla-Tocumwal Road (C371) – Benalla
			400	250	Cobram South Road (C368) – Katamatite, Benalla
			409	254	Cobram-Koonoomoo Road (C367) – Cobram, Koonoomoo, Tocumwal;  – Barooga
	Yarrawonga Main Channel		437	272	Bridge over the channel (bridge name unknown)
	Moira	Yarrawonga	437	272	Benalla-Yarrawonga Road (C373) – Benalla
			438	272	Belmore Street (C373) – Yarrawonga, Mulwala, Corowa	Roundabout
		Esmond	457	284	Wangaratta-Yarrawonga Road (C374) – Wangaratta
	Ovens River		459	285	Parolas Bridge
	Indigo	Rutherglen	480	300	Federation Way (C375) – Wangaratta, Corowa
			484	301	Rutherglen-Wahgunyah Road (C376) – Wahgunyah, Corowa	Western concurrency terminus
			485	301	Chiltern-Rutherglen Road (C376) – Springhurst, Chiltern	Roundabout; eastern concurrency terminus
		Browns Plains	499	310	Chiltern-Howlong Road (C381) – Chiltern, Howlong
		Barnawartha	505	314	Barnawartha-Howlong Road (C378) – Howlong
		Barnawartha North	511	318	Hume Freeway (M31) – Wangaratta, Melbourne	Trumpet interchange; grade separated; western concurrency terminus
	Wodonga	Wodonga	527	327	Hume Freeway (M31) – Sydney	Diamond interchange; grade separated; eastern concurrency terminus
					Lincoln Causeway – Albury
			528	328	Beechworth Road (C315) – Beechworth, Wangaratta
			531	330	Bandiana Link Road (C410) – Wodonga, Albury
		Bandiana	533	331	Kiewa Valley Highway (C531) – Mount Beauty, Falls Creek
	Kiewa River		536	333	Bridge over the river (bridge name unknown)
	Wodonga	Bonegilla	541	336	Bonegilla Road (C541) – Hume Dam
	Towong	Huon	556	345	Kiewa East Road (C533) – Tangambalanga, Dartmouth, Omeo
		Tallangatta	574	357	Omeo Highway (C543) – Omeo, Bairnsdale
	Mitta Mitta River		579	360	Bridge over the river (bridge name unknown)
	Towong	Bullio	584	363	Murray River Road (C546) – Granya
		Shelley	611	380	Shelley-Jingellic Road (C547) – Walwa, Jingellic
		Cudgewa	633	393	Cudgewa-Tintaldra Road (C548) – Cudgewa, Tintaldra
		Colac Colac	643	400	Benambra-Corryong Road (C545) – Benambra, Omeo, Mount Hotham, Bairnsdale
		Towong	656	408	Murray River Road (C546) – Towong, Tintaldra
New South Wales – Victoria state border			663	412	New South Wales – Victoria state border
New South Wales	Murray River				Bringenbrong Bridge
	Snowy Valleys	Tooma			Alpine Way – Khancoban, Thredbo, Jindabyne	Eastern terminus; road continues into New South Wales as the Alpine Way
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus       Route transition

See also

• Highways in Australia
• Highways in New South Wales
• Highways in Victoria

References

1. "29 Murray Valley Highway, Euston NSW 2737, Australia to Murray Valley Highway, Towong Upper VIC 3707, Australia". Google Maps. 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
2. "Map of Murray Valley Highway". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
3. "Australian Towns, Cities & Highways: Murray Valley Highway". Hotkey. Retrieved 11 May 2008.
4. "Murray Valley Highway". ExplorOz. Retrieved 11 May 2008.
5. Twentieth Annual Report for year ended 30th June 1933 (PDF), Country Roads Board, p. 4
6. National Route 16 – Murray Valley Highway, Ozroads. Retrieved on 22 September 2013.
7. O'Callaghan, Deborah (18 January 2011). "The Loddon River laps at Patchell Bridge, Kerang, in January 2011". ABC News. Australia. Retrieved 17 November 2016.