Mallee Highway

South Australia
–Victoria
General information
TypeHighway
Length374 km (232 mi)[1]
Opened1947 (as Ouyen Highway)
1990 (as Mallee Highway)
Route number(s) B12 (1997/1998–present)
Former
route number		 National Route 12 (1955–1997/1998)
Major junctions
West end Dukes Highway
Tailem Bend, South Australia
 
East endTooleybuc Road
VIC/NSW border
Location(s)
RegionMurray and Mallee,[2] Loddon Mallee[3]
Major settlementsLameroo, Pinnaroo, Murrayville, Walpeup, Ouyen, Manangatang
Highway system

Mallee Highway[4] (formerly Ouyen Highway in Victoria) is a highway in south-eastern South Australia and north-western Victoria, running mostly across the Mallee plains. It forms part of the shortest route between Adelaide and Sydney.

Route

Mallee Highway begins at the intersection with Dukes Highway just south-east of Tailem Bend in South Australia. It runs east as a dual-lane, single-carriageway road, through cereal-growing farmland at the southern end of the Murray Mallee to Pinnaroo near the border with Victoria. There, it crosses the Ngarkat and Browns Well Highways.

It continues east into Victoria through Ouyen, where it crosses the Calder Highway, travels to Manangatang and eventually to Piangil, where it meets with the Murray Valley Highway. It continues along Tooleybuc Road two kilometres to the north where it continues east, until it meets the New South Wales border and the Murray River at Tooleybuc, where the highway officially ends. The road continues through New South Wales, eventually meeting the Sturt Highway at Balranald.

History

The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924[5] 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, now VicRoads. The Ouyen Highway was declared a State Highway within Victoria in the 1947/48 financial year,[6] from the Calder Highway at Ouyen via Murrayville to the South Australian border (for a total of 81 miles); before this declaration, the roads were referred to as Ouyen–Pinnaroo Road.[7]

With the passing of the Transport Act of 1983,[8] itself an evolution from the original Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924, the name was later changed to the Mallee Highway and extended east along the former Ouyen–Piangil Road and Tooleybuc Road to Piangil in December 1990.[9]

The highway was signed as National Route 12 between Tailem Bend and Ouyen in 1955, later extended with the road to Piangil in 1990. With both states' conversion to their newer alphanumeric systems in the late 1990s, its former route number was updated to B12 in 1997 within Victoria, and in 1998 in South Australia.

The passing of the Road Management Act 2004[10] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Mallee Highway (Arterial #6650), beginning at the South Australian border at Panitya and ending at the New South Wales border in Piangil.[11]

Major intersections and towns

StateLGA[12]Location[1][11][13]km[1]miDestinationsNotes
South AustraliaThe CoorongTailem Bend0.00.0 Dukes Highway (A8) – Adelaide, Keith, Bordertown, MelbourneWestern terminus of highway and route B12
Moorlands14.59.0Old Dukes Highway – Coomandook
Sherlock29.718.5Kulkawurra Road (north) – Karoonda
Tynan Road (south) – Yumali
Southern MalleeLameroo98.561.2Billiat Road – AlawoonaRoundabout
Pinnaroo132.782.5 Ngarkat Highway (B57 south) – Bordertown, NaracoorteConcurrency with route B57
139.386.6 Browns Well Highway (B57 north) – Loxton, Renmark
State border145.090.1South Australia – Victoria state border
VictoriaMilduraPanitya148.492.2Panitya Road – Panitya
Murrayville166.4103.4Murrayville–Nhill Road – Nhill
Boinka205.9127.9Boinka South Road – Tutye
Underbool226.3140.6Underbool–Patchewollock Road – Patchewollock
Walpeup246.1152.9 Walpeup–Patchewollock Road (C247) – Patchewollock, Hopetoun
Ouyen273.0169.6Ouyen–Patchewollock Road – Patchewollock, Hopetoun
275.3171.1 Calder Highway (A79 south) – Ballarat, Bendigo, MelbourneConcurrency with route A79
275.5171.2 Calder Highway (A79 north) – Red Cliffs, Mildura
Swan HillManangatang330.0205.1 Robinvale–Sea Lake Road (C251) – Robinvale, Sea Lake
Piangil371.1230.6 Murray Valley Highway (B400 south) – Swan Hill, MelbourneConcurrency with route B12
373.0231.8 Murray Valley Highway (B400 north) – Robinvale
374.4232.6Tooleybuc Road – Tooleybuc, BalranaldEastern terminus of highway and route B12; road continues as Yanga Way to Balranald
State borderVictoria – New South Wales state border
New South WalesMurray RiverTooleybuc Bridge
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi


See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Google (12 October 2021). "Mallee Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  2. ↑ "Location SA Map viewer with regional layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  3. ↑ "Victoria's Regions". Regional Development Victoria. Victoria State Government. 11 August 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  4. ↑ Mallee Highway Touring Route, Design Train. Retrieved on 15 September 2013.
  5. ↑ 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
  6. ↑ "Country Roads Board Victoria. Thirty-Fifth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1948". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 1 November 1948. p. 7.
  7. ↑ "Country Roads Board Victoria. Twenty-Sixth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1939". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 10 November 1939. p. 99.
  8. ↑ State of Victoria, An Act to Re-enact with Amendments the Law relating to Transport including the Law with respect to Railways, Roads and Tramways... 23 June 1983
  9. ↑ "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 19 December 1990. pp. 3783, 3787, 3793. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. 1 2 VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A)" (PDF). Government of Victoria. p. 992. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  12. ↑ "Location SA Map viewer with LGA layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  13. ↑ "Location SA Map viewer with suburb layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.

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