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Glenelg Highway

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Glenelg Highway

Victoria
–South Australia
Glenelg Highway is located in Victoria
West end
West end
East end
East end
Coordinates
General information
TypeHighway
Length299.8 km (186 mi)[1]
GazettedNovember 1914 (as Main Road)[2]
1947/48 (as State Highway)[3]
Route number(s) B160 (1998–present)
Former
route number		 State Route 112 (1986–1998)
Major junctions
West end Princes Highway
Glenburnie, South Australia
 
East end Midland Highway
Sebastopol, Ballarat
Location(s)
RegionLimestone Coast,[4] Grampians[5]
Major settlementsCasterton, Coleraine, Hamilton, Dunkeld, Glenthompson, Lake Bolac, Skipton
Highway system

Glenelg Highway is a rural highway in south-eastern Australia, linking the major regional centres of Mount Gambier in south-eastern South Australia with Ballarat in western Victoria.[6]

Route[edit]

Glenelg Highway commences at the intersection with Princes Highway in Glenburnie, South Australia and heads on a north-easterly direction as a two-lane, single carriageway rural highway, crossing the interstate border into Victoria 15km later (some maps identify the South Australian section as Casterton Road), continuing northeast to Casterton, then heading in an easterly direction through the towns of Hamilton, Dunkeld and Skipton, before eventually terminating at the intersection with Midland Highway in the south-eastern suburb of Sebastopol in Ballarat.[7][8][9][10]

History[edit]

The passing of the Country Roads Act of 1912[11] through the Parliament of Victoria provided for the establishment of the Country Roads Board (later VicRoads) and their ability to declare Main Roads, taking responsibility for the management, construction and care of the state's major roads from local municipalities. Hamilton- (Coleraine-) (Casterton-) Mount Gambier Road was declared a Main Road, from Hamilton to Coleraine on 16 November 1914,[2] and Coleraine through Casterton to the border with South Australia on 30 November 1914;[12] Hamilton-Dunkeld Road from Hamilton to Dunkeld was declared a Main Road on 16 November 1914.[2]

The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924[13] provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Country Roads Board. Glenelg Highway was declared a State Highway in the 1947/48 financial year,[3] from Ballarat via Skipton and Hamilton to Casterton (for a total of 149 miles), subsuming the original declaration of Hamilton-Coleraine-Casterton-Mount Gambier Road and Hamilton-Dunkeld Road as Main Roads; before this declaration, the road was also referred to as Ballarat-Hamilton Road.[14]

The alignment of the highway through Ballarat was changed in June 1983: previously terminating at the intersection of Albert and Hertford Streets in Sebastopol, it was extended north 3 km along Albert Street, Skipton Street, and Doveton Street South to terminate at Sturt Street (Western Highway) in central Ballarat,[15] only to be truncated back to its original terminus in Sebastopol in May 1990; the former alignment was subsumed into the Midland Highway, re-aligned to this route at the same time.[16] A new bridge over Hopkins River in Wickcliffe was opened in 1996, replacing an older, flood-prone structure and the last on the highway with a timber deck, at a cost of $145,000, with bridge approaches costing $700,000.[17]

Glenelg Highway was signed as State Route 112 between Glenburnie and Ballarat in 1986; with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, this was replaced by route B160.

The passing of the Road Management Act 2004[18] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Glenelg Highway (Arterial #6670), beginning at the South Australian border and ending at Midland Highway in Sebastopol, Ballarat.[6]

Major Intersections and Towns[edit]

StateLGA[19]Location[1][6][20]km[1]miDestinationsNotes
South AustraliaGrantGlenburnie0.00.0 Princes Highway (A1 west, east) – Portland, Mount Gambier
Attiwill Road (south) – Murrawa		Western terminus of highway and route B160
State border15.39.5South Australia – Victoria state border
VictoriaGlenelgCasterton58.436.3 Casterton–Penola Road (C198) – Penola, Robe
61.638.3 Casterton–Naracoorte Road (C211) – Naracoorte
Glenelg River62.138.6Bridge name unknown
GlenelgCasterton63.439.4 Portland–Casterton Road (C195) – Portland
67.742.1 Casterton–Edenhope Road (C207 north) – Edenhope
Lodge Road (south) – Sandford
Southern GrampiansColeraine89.255.4 Coleraine–Balmoral Road (C203/C206) – Balmoral, Harrow, Nhill
90.756.4 Coleraine–Merino Road (C196) – Merino
Hamilton121.575.5 Henty Highway (A200 north) – Horsham, Warracknabeal, MilduraConcurrency with route A200
123.876.9 Henty Highway (A200 south) – Heywood, Portland
124.977.6Lonsdale Street (west) – Hamilton
Thompson Street (south) – Hamilton		Roundabout
126.378.5Portland railway line
127.779.3 Hamilton Highway (B140) – Mortlake, Warrnambool, Geelong
Moutajup148.392.1Portland railway line
Dunkeld152.995.0 Penshurst–Dunkeld Road (C178 north) – Penshurst, Warrnambool
Dunkeld–Cavendish Road (C188 south) – Cavendish, Balmoral
156.197.0 Grampians Road (C216) – Halls Gap, Stawell
Glenthompson174.6108.5 Pyrenees Highway (B180) – Ararat, Avoca, Castlemaine
175.7109.2Portland railway line
Hopkins River192.2119.4Bridge name unknown
AraratLake Bolac203.0126.1 Mortlake–Ararat Road (C148) – Mortlake, Ararat
Westmere215.1133.7Western SG railway line
Streatham223.5138.9 Rossbridge–Streatham Road (C182) – Ararat
Fiery Creek224.2139.3Bridge name unknown
CorangamiteSkipton250.8155.8 Skipton Road (C172) – BeaufortWestern terminus of concurrency with route C172
Mount Emu Creek251.2156.1Bridge name unknown
CorangamiteSkipton251.3156.2 Lismore–Skipton Road (C172) – LismoreEastern terminus of concurrency with route C172
251.8156.5 Rokewood–Skipton Road (C143) – Rokewood, Geelong
Woady Yaloak River278.4173.0Bridge name unknown
Golden PlainsScarsdale279.5173.7 Lismore–Scarsdale Road (C171) – Lismore
BallaratDelacombe297.1184.6 Delacombe–Wendouree Road (C307 north) – Alfredton, Wendouree
Cherry Flat Road (south) – Bonshaw
Sebastopol299.8186.3 Midland Highway (A300 north, south) – Ballarat City Centre, Bendigo, Geelong
Sayle Street (east) – Sebastopol		Eastern terminus of highway and route B160

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Google (9 October 2021). "Glenelg Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 25 November 1914. p. 5287. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Country Roads Board Victoria. Thirty-Fifth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1948". Country Roads Board. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 1 November 1948. p. 7.
  4. ^ "Location SA Map viewer with regional layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  5. ^ "Victoria's Regions". Regional Development Victoria. Victoria State Government. 11 August 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  6. ^ a b c VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads 2024" (PDF). Government of Victoria. p. 945. Archived from the original on 19 June 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  7. ^ Gange, P. H; Konings, L. F (1959), Highway record survey. Glenelg Highway, Melbourne: Country Roads Board, retrieved 23 November 2012
  8. ^ Royal Automobile Association of South Australia (RAA); Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (RACV) (1979), [Highway strip maps of Australia]. Ballarat-Lake Bolac, 99  km. Glenelg Highway, RAA, retrieved 23 November 2012
  9. ^ Royal Automobile Association of South Australia (1979), [Highway strip maps of Australia]. Lake Bolac-Dunkeld and Hamilton, 78 km., Glenelg Highway, RAA, retrieved 23 November 2012
  10. ^ Hema Maps; Martin, Ray (2006), Melbourne to Adelaide, Hema Maps, retrieved 23 November 2012
  11. ^ An Act relating to Country Roads State of Victoria, 23 December 1912
  12. ^ "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 9 December 1914. pp. 5527, 5530. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  13. ^ An Act to make further provision with respect to Highways and Country Roads Motor Cars and Traction Engines and for other purposes State of Victoria, 30 December 1924
  14. ^ "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. pp. 98, 101.
  15. ^ "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 30 June 1983. p. 1973. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  16. ^ "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 2 May 1990. pp. 1216–9, 1225. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  17. ^ "VicRoads Annual Report 1995-96". VicRoads. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 18 October 1996. p. 16.
  18. ^ State Government of Victoria. "Road Management Act 2004" (PDF). Government of Victoria. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 October 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  19. ^ "Location SA Map viewer with LGA layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  20. ^ "Location SA Map viewer with suburb layers". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
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