Type Highway | Length 671 km | |
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Route number(s) Nil
(Within New South Wales)
B400
(Within Victoria) Former
route number National Route 16
(1955–1998) (Vic.)
(1955–2013) (NSW)
Entire route NW end Sturt Highway
Euston, New South Wales SE end Alpine Way
NSW/Vic border east of Towong, Victoria Major cities Echuca, Swan Hill, Wodonga, Yarrawonga, Kerang, Robinvale, Tallangatta Via Robinvale, Swan Hill, Kerang, Echuca, Yarrawonga, Wodonga, Tallangatta Major settlements Robinvale, Swan Hill, Kerang, Echuca, Yarrawonga, Wodonga, Tallangatta | ||
Murray valley highway victoria australia
The Murray Valley Highway is a 663-kilometre (412 mi) state highway located in Victoria and New South Wales, Australia. For the vast majority of the course of the highway's length, the route is designated as B400.
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Map of Murray Valley Hwy, Victoria, Australia
Route
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. 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 northern-most 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) 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).
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.