Hamilton Highway

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Hamilton Highway

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East end
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West end
Coordinates
General information
TypeHighway
Length229 km (142 mi) [1]
Route number(s) AUS Alphanumeric Route B140.svg B140 (1998–present)
Former
route number
Australian state route 106.svg State Route 106 (1986–1998) [2]
Major junctions
East endAUS Alphanumeric Route C123.svgPortarlington Road
Newtown, Geelong
 
West endAUS Alphanumeric Route B160.svg Glenelg Highway
Hamilton, Victoria
Location(s)
Major settlements Penshurst, Mortlake, Lismore, Cressy, Fyansford
Highway system

Hamilton Highway is a rural highway in western Victoria, Australia, linking Geelong and the town of Hamilton, through the localities of Inverleigh, Cressy, Lismore, Derrinallum, Darlington, Mortlake, and Penshurst. Glenelg Highway links Hamilton across the South Australian border to Mount Gambier, making Hamilton Highway a popular alternative Melbourne-Mount Gambier route (being roughly 50 km shorter than a corresponding journey via the Victorian coast along Highway 1).

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History

The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 [3] 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 Hamilton Highway was declared a State Highway in the 1959/60 financial year, [4] from Geelong via Cressy and Mortlake to Hamilton (for a total of 143 miles); before this declaration, this road was referred to as the Geelong-Hamilton Road. [4]

The Geelong end of the highway was once routed along Hyland Street through Fyansford, until the construction of Deviation Road between 1931 and 1932 with unemployment labour during the Great Depression. Opened in 1933, it was cut into the hillside, the surface was originally of concrete construction. The road opened 54 years after the first petition by Fyansford residents for such a road. [5]

A new bridge over Woady Yaloak River in Cressy was opened in 1995, at a cost of $2.86 million, adjacent to and replacing a structure built in 1854 and rebuilt in 1880 after fire damage, retained but now closed to vehicular traffic. [6]

The Hamilton Highway was signed as State Route 106 between Geelong and Hamilton in 1986; with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, this was replaced by route B140.

The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 [7] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Hamilton Highway (Arterial #6780), beginning at Latrobe Terrace at Geelong and ending at Glenelg Highway in Hamilton. [8]

Major Intersections and Towns

LGALocation [1] [8] km [1] miDestinationsNotes
Greater Geelong Newtown 0.00.0AUS Alphanumeric Route C123.svg Ryrie Street (C123 east) – Geelong, Drysdale Eastern terminus of highway and route B140
AUS Alphanumeric Route A10.svgAustralian Tourist Drive 21.svg Latrobe Terrace (A10/Tourist Drive 21 north, south)  Corio, Waurn Ponds
1.50.93AUS Alphanumeric Route C136.svg Shannon Avenue (C136)  Belmont, Corio
Fyansford 3.92.4AUS Alphanumeric Route C118.svg Hyland Street (C118)  Corio Roundabout
5.43.4AUS Alphanumeric Route M1.svg Geelong Ring Road (M1)  Melbourne, Colac
6.03.7AUS Alphanumeric Route C137.svg Fyansford-Gheringhap Road (C137)  Ballarat
Golden Plains Stonehaven 8.35.2AUS Alphanumeric Route C111.svg Merrawarp Road (C111 south)  Ceres, Moriac Concurrency with route C111
8.75.4AUS Alphanumeric Route C111.svg Friend In Hand Road (C111 north)  Gheringhap, Ballarat
Inverleigh 27.417.0AUS Alphanumeric Route C145.svg Inverleigh-Winchelsea Road (C145)  Winchelsea
31.719.7AUS Alphanumeric Route C144.svg Inverleigh-Shelford Road (C144)  Shelford
Colac Otway Cressy 64.440.0AUS Alphanumeric Route C146.svg Colac-Ballarat Road (C146 north)  Rokewood, Ballarat Concurrency with route C146
65.740.8AUS Alphanumeric Route C146.svg Colac-Ballarat Road (C146 south)  Cressy, Colac
Corangamite Duverney72.144.8AUS Alphanumeric Route C164.svg Foxhow Road (C164)  Camperdown
Lismore 89.955.9AUS Alphanumeric Route C171.svg Lismore-Scarsdale Road (C171)  Ballarat
94.758.8AUS Alphanumeric Route C165.svg Camperdown-Lismore Road (C165)  Camperdown
96.660.0AUS Alphanumeric Route C172.svg Lismore-Skipton Road (C172)  Camperdown, Skipton
Darlington 121.575.5AUS Alphanumeric Route C173.svg Darlington Road (C173)  Camperdown
Moyne Mortlake 144.589.8AUS Alphanumeric Route C148.svg Mortlake-Ararat Road (C148 north)  Lake Bolac, Ararat
AUS Alphanumeric Route C156.svg Terang-Mortlake Road (C156 south)  Terang, Cobden
146.390.9AUS Alphanumeric Route B120.svg Hopkins Highway (B120)  Warrnambool
Caramut 177.4110.2AUS Alphanumeric Route C174.svg Warrnambool-Caramut Road (C174)  Warrnambool
Southern Grampians Penshurst 201.4125.1AUS Alphanumeric Route C178.svg Penshurst-Dunkeld Road (C178 north)  Dunkeld Concurrency with route C178
202.4125.8AUS Alphanumeric Route C178.svg Penshurst-Warrnambool Road (C178 south)  Port Fairy, Warrnambool
AUS Alphanumeric Route C185.svg Macarthur-Penshurst Road (C185 west)  Macarthur
Hamilton 229.2142.4AUS Alphanumeric Route B160.svg Glenelg Highway (B160)  Hamilton, Portland, Horsham, Mount Gambier Western terminus of highway and route B140
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

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References

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  2. State Route 106 - Hamilton Highway, Main Roads Victoria. Retrieved on 14 September 2013.[ self-published source ]
  3. 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
  4. 1 2 "Country Roads Board Victoria. Forty-Seventh Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1960". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 21 November 1960. pp. 7–8.
  5. John, McNeil (1990) A Journey to Destiny 1890-1990 100 Years of Cement Manufacturing at Fyansford by Australian Cement Limited
  6. "VicRoads Annual Report 1994-95". VicRoads . Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 26 September 1995. p. 10.
  7. 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.
  8. 1 2 VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. pp. 1031–2. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.

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