Northern Highway, Victoria

Northern Highway
Formerly
Length	164 km (102 mi)
Direction	North-South
From	Cobb Highway, Moama, NSW / Echuca, Victoria (NSW/Vic Border)
via	Elmore, Heathcote, Kilmore
To	Hume Freeway, Wallan, Victoria
Major junctions	Murray Valley Highway Midland Highway McIvor Highway for full list see major intersections

The Northern Highway B75, through Heathcote, Rochester and Echuca

The Northern Highway is a secondary highway in northern Victoria. Along with the M/A79 Calder Highway (Melbourne to Mildura) and the M/A39 Goulburn Valley Highway (Melbourne to Tocumwal), it provides primary arterial links in the region. In conjunction with the B280 McIvor Highway, the B75 Northern Highway provides an important link between Melbourne and Bendigo.

It runs from the M31 Hume Freeway south of Wallan to the New South Wales Border at Echuca, on the banks of the Murray River, a distance of 164 kilometres. The highway traverses moderately hilly terrain from Wallan to Toolleen, then flat open country to the border at Echuca. Beyond Echuca across the NSW border it continues as Cobb Highway. The section between the Hume Highway south of Wallan and the intersection of the highway and the Kilmore-Broadford Rd was, in fact, the Hume Highway until 1976, when the Hume Freeway replaced the old highway and bypassed Wallan, Kilmore and Broadford.

The Northern Highway and the beginning of the McIvor Highway form a junction at Heathcote. The McIvor Highway leads to Bendigo and the Northern Highway continues to Echuca.

The B75 Northern Highway is a significant freight route providing access to markets, airport and port in Melbourne and the rural primary production areas of the Murray Valley and southern New South Wales. It serves a number of agricultural and tourism-related industries along its length.

Major intersections and towns

Northern Highway
Northbound	Distance to Echuca (km)	Distance to Melbourne (km)	Southbound
End Northern Highway continues as Cobb Highway to Deniliquin / Hay / Wilcannia	--	221	Start Northern Highway from Cobb Highway
MURRAY RIVER			MURRAY RIVER
NEW SOUTH WALES STATE BORDER VICTORIA
To Cohuna, Kerang High Street _	--	220.5	To Cohuna, Kerang High Street _
Echuca	0	220	Echuca
continues as	1	219	Nathalia, Yarrawonga, Wodonga; To Kyabram Murray Valley Highway
Nathalia, Yarrawonga, Wodonga Murray Valley Highway			duplexes with
duplexes with	3	217	Cohuna, Kerang, Swan Hill Murray Valley Highway
Cohuna, Kerang, Swan Hill Murray Valley Highway			continues as
Mitiamo Echuca-Mitiamo Road _	8	212	Mitiamo Echuca-Mitiamo Road _
Prairie Prairie-Rochester Road _	22	198	Prairie Prairie-Rochester Road _
ECHUCA RAIL LINE	27.5	192.5	ECHUCA RAIL LINE
Kyabram Kyabram-Rochester Road _	28	192	Rochester
Rochester			Kyabram; To Rushworth Kyabram-Rochester Road _
Raywood Elmore-Raywood Road _	45.5	174.5	Raywood Elmore-Raywood Road _
Elmore	46	174	Elmore
continues as			Bendigo, Ballarat Midland Highway
Bendigo Midland Highway			duplexes with
duplexes with	48	172	Shepparton, Benalla Midland Highway
Shepparton, Benalla Midland Highway			continues as
Bendigo, Rushworth, Murchison Bendigo-Murchison Road _	59	161	Rushworth, Murchison, Bendigo Bendigo-Murchison Road _
Rushworth, Murchison Heathcote-Rochester Road _	84	136	Rushworth Heathcote-Rochester Road _
Bendigo McIvor Highway	95	125	Bendigo McIvor Highway
Redesdale, Kyneton Heathcote-Kyneton Road _	96	124	Redesdale, Kyneton Heathcote-Kyneton Road _
Heathcote	97	123	Heathcote
Nagambie Heathcote-Nagambie Road _	101	119	Nagambie Heathcote-Nagambie Road _
Puckapunyal, Seymour Seymour-Tooborac Road _	112.5	107.5	Puckapunyal, Seymour Seymour-Tooborac Road _
Tooborac	113	107	Tooborac
Lancefield, Sunbury Lancefield-Tooborac Road _	114	106	Lancefield, Romsey, Sunbury Lancefield-Tooborac Road _
Broadford, Seymour Broadford-Kilmore Road _	144	76	Broadford Broadford-Kilmore Road _
Kilmore	146	74	Kilmore
Lancefield, Woodend Kilmore-Lancefield Road _	147	73	Lancefield, Woodend Kilmore-Lancefield Road _
Wandong, Epping Epping-Kilmore Road _	150	70	Wandong, Whittlesea, Epping Epping-Kilmore Road _
Wallan	159	61	Wallan
Seymour, Sydney via Freeway; Whittlesea, Kinglake Wallan-Whittlesea Road	160	60	Seymour, Sydney via Freeway; Whittlesea, Kinglake Wallan-Whittlesea Road
Start Northern Highway from Hume Freeway	164	56	End Northern Highway continues as Hume Freeway to Melbourne

Attractions

• Heathcote-Graytown National Park

See also

• Highways in Australia
• Highways in Victoria

References

• Northern Highway (B75), Melway Street Directory 2008, Edition 35, page 909.