Calder Highway

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Calder Highway
Formerly
General direction Northwest - Southeast
From Silver City Highway, Curlwaa, New South Wales Vic/NSW Border
via Ouyen, Charlton, Bendigo, Kyneton
To Calder Freeway, Kyneton, Victoria
Major Junctions Sturt Highway
Mallee Highway
Sunraysia Highway
Borung Highway
Midland Highway
Pyrenees Highway
The Calder Highway, passing through Irymple.
The Calder Highway, passing through Irymple.
The end of the Calder Highway, near Curlwaa, New South Wales.
The end of the Calder Highway, near Curlwaa, New South Wales.
Fruit disposal bins and warning signs along the Calder Highway, approaching the Fruit Fly Exclusion Zone near Mildura.
Fruit disposal bins and warning signs along the Calder Highway, approaching the Fruit Fly Exclusion Zone near Mildura.

Calder Highway is a Highway linking Kyneton in Victoria, to Mildura. North of the Victoria/New South Wales border, the highway continues north to Broken Hill, Tibooburra and the New South Wales/Queensland border as the Silver City Highway, under the standard 79 national route shield as far as Thargomindah Road at the Queensland / New South Wales border[1] .

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[edit] History

The Calder Highway was named after William Calder, who was chairman of the Victorian road construction authority formerly known as the Country Roads Board from 1913 to 1928. The CRB is today known as VicRoads.

The highway was originally allocated a National Route 79 shield. With Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s this was altered to a designation for the majority highway portion.

[edit] Route

South of the Victoria/New South Wales border the highway is a two-lane, single carriageway in each direction, continuing through northwest Victoria from the Abbotsford Bridge, through Merbein to the major regional town of Mildura in the state's north-west. Here also it crosses the Sturt Highway , leading to capital cities Adelaide heading west and Sydney heading east. Further south, it crosses the Mallee Highway B12 at Ouyen and runs south-east eventually to Bendigo.

The Calder Alternate Highway, A790 leaves the just north of Ravenswood and bypasses the Bendigo suburban area, rejoining the at Marong, west of Bendigo.

For most of its length from Bendigo to its end at its junction with the Tullamarine Freeway in Melbourne, the Calder Highway is a four lane dual carriageway, upgraded to freeway standard as the Calder Freeway.

[edit] Towns

Towns along the , from the border towards Melbourne, include:

[edit] References

  1. ^ {{{author}}}, Silver City Highway, Tibooburra, [[]], [[2007-12-25]].

[edit] See also