Hamilton Highway
Hamilton Highway is a rural highway in western Victoria, Australia, linking Geelong and the town of Hamilton, through the localities of Inverleigh, Cressy, Lismore, Derrinallum, Darlington, Mortlake, and Penshurst. Glenelg Highway links Hamilton across the South Australian border to Mount Gambier, making Hamilton Highway a popular alternative Melbourne-Mount Gambier route (being roughly 50 km shorter than a corresponding journey via the Victorian coast along Highway 1).
Hamilton Highway | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Highway |
| Length | 229 km (142 mi)[1] |
| Route number(s) | B140 (1998–present) |
| Former route number | State Route 106 (1986–1998)[2] |
| Major junctions | |
| East end | Portarlington Road Newtown, Geelong |
| West end | Glenelg Highway Hamilton, Victoria |
| Location(s) | |
| Major settlements | Penshurst, Mortlake, Lismore, Cressy, Fyansford |
| Highway system | |
History edit
The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924[3] 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 (later VicRoads). The Hamilton Highway was declared a State Highway in the 1959/60 financial year,[4] from Geelong via Cressy and Mortlake to Hamilton (for a total of 143 miles); before this declaration, this road was referred to as the Geelong-Hamilton Road.[4]
The Geelong end of the highway was once routed along Hyland Street through Fyansford, until the construction of Deviation Road between 1931 and 1932 with unemployment labour during the Great Depression. Opened in 1933, it was cut into the hillside, the surface was originally of concrete construction. The road opened 54 years after the first petition by Fyansford residents for such a road.[5]
A new bridge over Woady Yaloak River in Cressy was opened in 1995, at a cost of $2.86 million, adjacent to and replacing a structure built in 1854 and rebuilt in 1880 after fire damage, retained but now closed to vehicular traffic.[6]
The Hamilton Highway was signed as State Route 106 between Geelong and Hamilton in 1986; with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, this was replaced by route B140.
The passing of the Road Management Act 2004[7] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Hamilton Highway (Arterial #6780), beginning at Latrobe Terrace at Geelong and ending at Glenelg Highway in Hamilton.[8]
Major Intersections and Towns edit
| LGA | Location[1][8] | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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| Greater Geelong | Newtown | 0.0 | 0.0 | Ryrie Street (C123 east) – Geelong, Drysdale | Eastern terminus of highway and route B140 |
| Latrobe Terrace (A10/Tourist Drive 21 north, south) – Corio, Waurn Ponds | |||||
| 1.5 | 0.93 | Shannon Avenue (C136) – Belmont, Corio | |||
| Fyansford | 3.9 | 2.4 | Hyland Street (C118) – Corio | Roundabout | |
| 5.4 | 3.4 | Geelong Ring Road (M1) – Melbourne, Colac | |||
| 6.0 | 3.7 | Fyansford–Gheringhap Road (C137) – Ballarat | |||
| Golden Plains | Stonehaven | 8.3 | 5.2 | Merrawarp Road (C111 south) – Ceres, Moriac | Concurrency with route C111 |
| 8.7 | 5.4 | Friend In Hand Road (C111 north) – Gheringhap, Ballarat | |||
| Inverleigh | 27.4 | 17.0 | Inverleigh–Winchelsea Road (C145) – Winchelsea | ||
| 31.7 | 19.7 | Inverleigh–Shelford Road (C144) – Shelford | |||
| Colac Otway | Cressy | 64.4 | 40.0 | Colac–Ballarat Road (C146 north) – Rokewood, Ballarat | Concurrency with route C146 |
| 65.7 | 40.8 | Colac–Ballarat Road (C146 south) – Cressy, Colac | |||
| Corangamite | Duverney | 72.1 | 44.8 | Foxhow Road (C164) – Camperdown | |
| Lismore | 89.9 | 55.9 | Lismore–Scarsdale Road (C171) – Ballarat | ||
| 94.7 | 58.8 | Camperdown–Lismore Road (C165) – Camperdown | |||
| 96.6 | 60.0 | Lismore–Skipton Road (C172) – Camperdown, Skipton | |||
| Darlington | 121.5 | 75.5 | Darlington Road (C173) – Camperdown | ||
| Moyne | Mortlake | 144.5 | 89.8 | Mortlake–Ararat Road (C148 north) – Lake Bolac, Ararat Terang–Mortlake Road (C156 south) – Terang, Cobden | |
| 146.3 | 90.9 | Hopkins Highway (B120) – Warrnambool | |||
| Caramut | 177.4 | 110.2 | Warrnambool–Caramut Road (C174) – Warrnambool | ||
| Southern Grampians | Penshurst | 201.4 | 125.1 | Penshurst–Dunkeld Road (C178 north) – Dunkeld | Concurrency with route C178 |
| 202.4 | 125.8 | Penshurst–Warrnambool Road (C178 south) – Port Fairy, Warrnambool Macarthur–Penshurst Road (C185 west) – Macarthur | |||
| Hamilton | 229.2 | 142.4 | Glenelg Highway (B160) – Hamilton, Portland, Horsham, Mount Gambier | Western terminus of highway and route B140 | |
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c Google (15 October 2021). "Hamilton Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
- ^ State Route 106 - Hamilton Highway, Main Roads Victoria. Retrieved on 14 September 2013.[self-published source]
- ^ 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
- ^ a b "Country Roads Board Victoria. Forty-Seventh Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1960". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 21 November 1960. pp. 7–8.
- ^ John, McNeil (1990) A Journey to Destiny 1890-1990 100 Years of Cement Manufacturing at Fyansford by Australian Cement Limited
- ^ "VicRoads Annual Report 1994-95". VicRoads. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 26 September 1995. p. 10.
- ^ State Government of Victoria. "Road Management Act 2004" (PDF). Government of Victoria. (PDF) from the original on 18 October 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ a b VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. pp. 1031–2. from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
External links edit
Media related to Hamilton Highway at Wikimedia Commons