Calder Highway

Calder Highway

Infobox Australian Road
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caption = Formerly
length = 458
direction = Northwest - Southeast
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through = Ouyen, Charlton, Bendigo, Kyneton
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Calder Highway is a Highway linking Kyneton in Victoria, to Mildura. North of the Victoria/New South Wales border, the highway continues north to Broken Hill, Tibooburra and the New South Wales/Queensland border as the Silver City Highway, under the standard national route shield as far as Thargomindah Road at the Queensland / New South Wales border [cite
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title = Silver City Highway, Tibooburra
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History

The Calder Highway was named after William Calder, who was chairman of the Victorian road construction authority formerly known as the Country Roads Board from 1913 to 1928. The CRB is today known as VicRoads.

The highway was originally allocated a National Route 79 shield. With Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s this was altered to a designation for the majority highway portion.

Route

South of the Victoria/New South Wales border the highway is a two-lane, single carriageway in each direction, continuing through northwest Victoria from the Abbotsford Bridge, through Merbein to the major regional town of Mildura in the state's north-west. Here also it crosses the Sturt Highway .

The Calder Alternate Highway, A790 leaves the at Marong, west of Bendigo.

For most of its length from Bendigo to its end at its junction with the Tullamarine Freeway in Melbourne, the Calder Highway is a four lane dual carriageway, upgraded to freeway standard as the Calder Freeway.

Towns

Towns along the , from the border towards Melbourne, include:

* Mildura
* Red Cliffs
* Ouyen
* Sea Lake
* Culgoa
* Wycheproof
* Charlton
* Wedderburn
* Inglewood
* Bridgewater on Loddon
* Bendigo
* Ravenswood South
* Harcourt
* Malmsbury

References

See also

* Highways in Australia
* Highways in Victoria


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