Mallee Highway

The Mallee Highway[2][3][4] (formerly the Ouyen Highway in Victoria) is part of the shortest route between Adelaide and Sydney. It runs east from Tailem Bend in South Australia through cereal-growing farmland at the southern end of the Murray Mallee to Pinnaroo near the border with Victoria, where it crosses Pinnaroo-Loxton and Pinnaroo-Bordertown Road in Pinnaroo. It continues in Victoria through Ouyen, where it crosses the Calder Highway, via Manangatang to Piangil, where it meets with the Murray Valley Highway.

Mallee Highway

South Australia
–Victoria
General information
TypeHighway
Length374 km (232 mi)[1]
Route number(s) B12 (1997/8–present)
Former
route number		 National Route 12 (1955–1997/8)
Major junctions
West end Dukes Highway
Tailem Bend, South Australia
 
East endTooleybuc Road
VIC/NSW border
Location(s)
Major settlementsLameroo, Pinnaroo, Murrayville, Walpeup, Ouyen, Manangatang
Highway system

Route B12, however continues past the Mallee Highway terminus along the Murray Valley Highway for two kilometres north of Piangil, linking to Tooleybuc Road where it continues until it crosses the New South Wales border and the Murray River at Tooleybuc. The road then continues to Balranald, at the Murrumbidgee River (without the B12 designation). Tooleybuc Road terminates at the Sturt Highway which continues en route to Sydney via the Hume Highway or Mid-Western Highway.

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 (later 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] The name was later changed to the Malee Highway and extended to the Murray Valley Highway in Piangil in 1991.

The highway was signed as National Route 12 between Tailem Bend and Ouyen in 1955, later extended to Piangil in 1991. 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[8] 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.[9]

Major intersections and towns
StateLGALocation[1][9]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. Google (12 October 2021). "Mallee Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  2. Mallee Highway Touring Route, Design Train. Retrieved on 15 September 2013.
  3. National Routes – Interstate Links, Main Roads Victoria. Retrieved on 15 September 2013.
  4. B12 Mallee Highway, Ozroads. 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 Government of Victoria. "Road Management Act 2004" (PDF). Government of Victoria. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 October 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  9. 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.

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