Loddon Valley Highway

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Loddon Valley Highway

General information
TypeHighway
Length124 km (77 mi)[1]
Route number(s) B260 (1998-present)
Former
route number
State Route 141 (1986-1998)[2]
Major junctions
North end Murray Valley Highway
Kerang, Victoria
  Boort–Pyramid Road
South end Calder Highway
Ironbark, Bendigo
Location(s)
Major settlementsDurham Ox, Serpentine, Eaglehawk
Highway system

The Loddon Valley Highway runs roughly north-west from Bendigo to Kerang on the Murray Valley Highway. It constitutes part of the direct route from Melbourne to the popular Murray River holiday areas around Swan Hill.

Route[]

Loddon Valley Highwy starts at the intersection with Murray Valley Highway just south of the fringes of Kerang, and runs south as a dual-lane single-carraigeway road, running parallel to the Loddon River a short distance to the west of the road for much of its length. It continues south through Durham Ox until it reaches Serpentine, where it veers more to the south-east away from the river course, passing through the hills around Eaglehawk on the outskirts of Greater Bendigo, before it meets the Calder Highway and ends at the intersections of Eaglehawk and Marong Roads in Ironbark, in the north-western suburbs of Bendigo.

History[]

The Country Roads Board (later VicRoads) declared Loddon Valley Road a Main Road in the 1937/38 financial year,[3] from Murray Valley Highway in Kerang, along roads through Durham Ox and Serpentine, to Calder Highway in Bendigo (for a total of 77 miles).[3]

The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924[4] 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; Loddon Valley Road was re-declared Loddon Valley Highway, a State Highway, in 1946.[5]

The Loddon Valley Highway was signed as State Route 141 between Kerang and Bendigo in 1986; with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, this was replaced by route B260.

The passing of the Road Management Act 2004[6] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Loddon Valley Highway (Arterial #6630), beginning at Murray Valley Highway at Kerang and ending at Calder Highway in Ironbark, Bendigo.[7]

Major intersections[]

LGALocation[1][7]km[1]miDestinationsNotes
GannawarraKerang0.00.0 Murray Valley Highway (B400) – Kerang, Swan Hill, Cohuna, EchucaNorthern terminus of highway and route B260
LoddonDurham Ox40.625.2 Boort–Pyramid Road (C267 east) – Pyramid Hill, CohunaConcurrency with route C267
42.326.3 Boort–Pyramid Road (C267 west) – Boort, Wycheproof
Jarklin52.532.6 Boort–Mitiamo Road (C334) – Mitiamo, Echuca
Serpentine75.246.7 Bridgewater–Serpentine Road (C274) – Bridgewater On Loddon, Dunolly
Greater BendigoEaglehawk119.174.0 Sailors Gully Road (Bendigo–Pyramid Road) (C336) – Pyramid Hill
California Gully120.374.8 Sandhurst Road (C329) – Bendigo, HeathcoteTraffic light intersection
Long Gully122.075.8 Holdsworth Road (C333) – White Hills
122.776.2 Creeth Street (Golden Square–Long Gully Road) (C323) – West Bendigo, Golden SquareTraffic light intersection
Ironbark123.876.9 Calder Highway (A79) – Marong, Mildura, Bendigo, MelbourneSouthern terminus of highway and route B260 at traffic light intersection

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Google (2 November 2021). "Loddon Valley Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  2. ^ State Route Numbering System - The former route numbering in rural Victoria, Main Roads Victoria. Retrieved on 14 September 2013.[self-published source]
  3. ^ a b "Country Roads Board Victoria. Twenty-Fifth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1938". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 24 November 1938. p. 14.
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ "Country Roads Board Victoria. Thirty-Third Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1946". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 3 December 1946. p. 5.
  6. ^ State Government of Victoria. "Road Management Act 2004" (PDF). Government of Victoria. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 October 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  7. ^ a b VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. pp. 944–5. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.


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