Murray Valley Highway

Murray Valley Highway New South Wales – Victoria

Murray Valley Highway at Nathalia

General information
Type	Highway
Length	663 km (412 mi)
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
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, Wodonga, Tallangatta
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in New South Wales Highways in Victoria

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

The end of the Murray Valley Highway at the Bringenbrong Bridge near Corryong.

The Murray Valley Highway^[1]^[2] is a state highway that is located in Victoria and New South Wales, 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.^[3] 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^[4]) 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).^[4]

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^[5]	mi	Destinations	Notes
New South Wales	Balranald Shire	Euston	0	0	Sturt Highway – west to Mildura, Renmark and Adelaide; east to Balranald, Hay and Sydney
New South Wales	River Murray		3	2	Robinvale Bridge
New South Wales – Victoria state border			4	2	New South Wales – Victoria state border	starts here
Victoria	Swan Hill	Robinvale	6	4	Robinvale-Sea Lake Road – Manangatang, Sea Lake
		Tol Tol	21	13	Hattah-Robinvale Road – Hattah
		Piangil	94	58	Tooleybuc Road – Tooleybuc, Balranald, Sydney
		Piangil	96	60	Mallee Highway – Ouyen, Adelaide
		Nyah	111	69	Speewah Road – Koraleigh, New South Wales
		Swan Hill	138	86	Sea Lake-Swan Hill Road – Town Centre, Sea Lake; Moulamein Road – Moulamein, Deniliquin
		Castle Donnington	143	89	Donald-Swan Hill Road – Wycheproof, Donald
	Gannawarra	Kerang	195	121	Kerang-Quambatook Road – Quambatook / – Boort
			197	122	Kerang-Koondrook Road – Koondrook / – Murrabit
			200	124	Loddon Valley Highway – Bendigo, Melbourne
		Cohuna	227	141	Cohuna-Koondrook Road – Koondrook, Barham
		Cohuna	229	142	Cohuna-Leitchville Road – Leitchville
		Leitchville	244	152	Kerang-Leitchville Road – Leitchville, Pyramid Hill
	Campaspe	Echuca	290	180	Warren Street – Town Centre, Moama
			292	181	Northern Highway – Rochester, Bendigo, Melbourne
			294	183	Northern Highway – Town Centre, Moama, Deniliquin
			295	183	Echuca-Kyabram Road – Kyabram
		Tongala	313	194	Kyabram-Tongala Road – Tongala, Kyabram
		Wyuna	323	201	John Allen Road – Kyabram
		Wyuna	325	202	Echuca-Mooroopna Road – Shepparton
	Goulburn River		331	206
	Moira	Nathalia	352	219	Barmah-Shepparton Road – Shepparton, Barmah
		Nathalia	355	221	Katamatite-Nathalia Road – Numurkah, Katamatite
		Strathmerton	390	242	Goulburn Valley Highway – Numurkah, Shepparton, Melbourne
		Yarroweyah	404	251	Goulburn Valley Highway – Tocumwal, Brisbane
		Cobram	404	251	Benalla-Tocumwal Road – Benalla
			408	254	Cobram South Road – Katamatite, Benalla
			409	254	Cobram-Koonoomoo Road – Cobram Town Centre, Koonoomoo, Tocumwal; – Barooga
		Yarrawonga	445	277	Benalla-Yarrawonga Road – Benalla
		Yarrawonga	446	277	Belmore Street – Yarrawonga Town Centre, Mulwala, Corowa
		Esmond	465	289	Wangaratta-Yarrawonga Road – Wangaratta
	Indigo	Rutherglen	487	303	Federation Way – Wangaratta, Corowa
			491	305	Rutherglen-Wahgunyah Road – Wahgunyah, Corowa
			492	306	Chiltern-Rutherglen Road – Springhurst, Chiltern
		Browns Plains	506	314	Chiltern-Howlong Road – Chiltern, Howlong
		Barnawartha	512	318	Barnawartha-Howlong Road – Howlong
		Barnawartha North	518	322	Hume Freeway – Wangaratta, Melbourne	grade separated
	Wodonga	Wodonga	532	331	Hume Freeway – Sydney	grade separated
		Wodonga	533	331	– Albury, New South Wales
		Bandiana	539	335	Kiewa Valley Highway – Mount Beauty, Falls Creek
		Bonegilla	546	339	Bonegilla Road – Hume Dam
	Towong	Huon	562	349	Kiewa East Road – Tangambalanga, Dartmouth, Omeo
		Tallangatta	580	360	Omeo Highway – Omeo, Bairnsdale
		Bullioh	590	367	Murray River Road – Granya
		Shelley	617	383	Shelley-Jingellic Road – Walwa, Jingellic
		Cudgewa	638	396	Cudgewa-Tintaldra Road – Cudgewa, Tintaldra
		Colac Colac	648	403	Benambra-Corryong Road – Benambra, Omeo, Mount Hotham, Bairnsdale
		Towong	662	411	Murray River Road – Towong, Tintaldra
New South Wales – Victoria state border			669	416	New South Wales – Victoria state border
Concurrency terminus

References

↑ Australian Towns, Cities & Highways: Murray Valley Highway, Hotkey. Retrieved on 11 May 2008.
↑ Murray Valley Highway, ExplorOz. Retrieved on 11 May 2008.
↑ Twentieth Annual Report for year ended 30th June 1933 (PDF), Country Roads Board, p. 4
1 2 National Route 16 – Murray Valley Highway, Ozroads. Retrieved on 22 September 2013.
↑ Murray Valley Highway on Google Maps

Road infrastructure in regional New South Wales

Motorways	Hume Motorway Hunter Expressway Pacific Motorway (Brisbane – Brunswick Heads) Pacific Motorway (Sydney–Newcastle) Princes Motorway

National highways	Barton Highway Federal Highway Hume Highway New England Highway Newell Highway Sturt Highway

Highways	Barrier Highway Bruxner Highway Carnarvon Highway Castlereagh Highway Cobb Highway Great Western Highway Gwydir Highway Illawarra Highway Kamilaroi Highway Kings Highway Mid-Western Highway Mitchell Highway Monaro Highway Murray Valley Highway Olympic Highway Oxley Highway Pacific Highway Princes Highway Riverina Highway Silver City Highway Snowy Mountains Highway

Local highways	Alpine Way Appin Road Barry Way Bathurst-Ilford Road Bells Line of Road Bucketts Way Burley Griffin Way Bylong Valley Way Camden Valley Way Castlereagh Highway Central Coast Highway Escort Way Fossickers Way Golden Highway Goldfields Way Goulburn-Oberon Road Henry Lawson Way Irrigation Way Kidman Way Lachlan Valley Way Memorial Drive Newcastle Inner City Bypass Newcastle Link Road O'Connell Road Old Hume Highway Picton Road Princes Highway Putty Road Remembrance Drive Summerland Way Thunderbolts Way Waterfall Way Wombeyan Caves Road Yass Valley Way

Bridges	Denison Bridge Grafton Bridge Harwood Bridge Hampden Bridge Macleay River Bridge Martin Bridge Mooney Mooney Bridge Nowra Bridge Sea Cliff Bridge Tea Gardens-Hawks Nest Bridge

Tunnels	Cudgen Road Tunnel St Helena Tunnel

Proposals	Sydney Bypass

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 Calder Highway Calder Alternative Highway Glenelg Highway Goulburn Valley Highway Hamilton Highway Henty Highway Hopkins 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 Princes Highway (Geelong)

Tourist routes	Great Alpine Road Great Ocean Road Murray Valley Highway Phillip Island Road

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Murray Valley Highway

Route

Major intersections and towns

See also

References