South Gippsland Highway

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South Gippsland Highway

Victoria
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West end
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East end
Coordinates
General information
TypeHighway
Length256 km (159 mi) [1]
Gazetted November 1913 (as Main Road) [2]
1933 (as State Highway) [3]
Route number(s)
  • AUS Alphanumeric Route M420.svg M420 (1998–present)
    (Lynbrook–Lang Lang)
  • AUS Alphanumeric Route A440.svg A440 (2003–present)
    (Lang Lang–Sale)
  • Concurrencies:
  • Australian state route 12.svg Metro Route 12 (1989–present)
    (through Dandenong South)
Former
route number
  • AUS Alphanumeric Route B440.svg B440 (1998–2003)
    (Lang Lang–Sale)
  • Australian state route 180.svg State Route 180 (1985–1998)
    Entire route
Major junctions
West endAustralian national route ALT1.svg Princes Highway
Dandenong South, Melbourne
 
East endAUS Alphanumeric Route A1.svg Princes Highway
Sale, Victoria
Location(s)
Major settlements Cranbourne, Koo Wee Rup, Lang Lang, Korumburra, Leongatha, Foster, Yarram, Longford
Highway system

South Gippsland Highway is a partially divided highway connecting the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne through the South Gippsland region of in Victoria, Australia to the town of Sale. The highway serves as a gateway from Melbourne to many attractions including Wilsons Promontory and Phillip Island as well as being an important road for farmers in Gippsland.

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Route

South Gippsland Highway commences at the intersection with Princes Highway in Dandenong, and heads in a south-eastly direction as a four-lane, dual-carriageway road towards the northern shores of Western Port Bay, through Cranbourne and Tooradin, until it reaches the interchange with Bass Highway to Phillip Island outside Lang Lang, after which it is entirely an undivided rural highway. It continues in an southeasterly direction through Nyora, Korumburra, Leongatha, Foster, Welshpool and Yarram, before heading north and eventually terminating at a roundabout with Princes Highway at Sale.

History

The passing of the Country Roads Act of 1912 [4] 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. (Main) South Gippsland Road was declared a Main Road, from Korumburra to Leongatha, on 10 November 1913, [2] and (Main) Coast Road was declared a Main Road, from Dandenong to Lang Lang, on 1 December 1913. [5]

The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 [6] 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. South Gippsland Highway was declared a State Highway in 1933, [3] cobbled together from roads between Dandenong and Nyora, and between Sale and Yarram (for a total of 83 miles), subsuming the original declarations of Main Coast Road and Main South Gippsland Road as Main Roads; before this declaration, this road was also referred to as Sale-Yarram Road. [7] In 1939, another section between Foster through Welshpool to Yarram was added, [8] along the former Foster-Yarram Road. [9] In the 1947/48 financial year, another section between Nyora via Korumburra and Leongatha to Meeniyan was added, [10] along the former Loch-Nyora Road, Bena-Korumburra Road and Korumburra-Leongatha Roads. [8] In the 1965/66 financial year, the last section between Meeniyan and Foster was added, [11] completing its present-day alignment at this stage.

Conversion to dual carriageways at the western end began in 1975, initially between South Gippsland Freeway and Cranbourne; a distance of 17 km. [12] The final link in the duplication of the highway between Dandenong and Bass Highway opened in the early 1990s between Princes Highway and Pound Road. [13]

South Gippsland Highway was signed as State Route 180 between Dandenong and Sale on 13 December 1985, the first road in Victoria signed with a State Route, [14] and later a concurrency with Metropolitan Route 12 between Greens Road and Pound Road through Dandenong South; with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, this was replaced by route M420 between Lynbrook and Lang Lang, B440 between Lang Lang and Sale (which was upgraded to A440 when highway upgrades along South Gippsland Highway raised the quality of the road in 2003), and unallocated (excluding the short stretch of Metro Route 12) between Dandenong and Dandenong South.

Timeline of upgrades and duplication

Level crossing elimination

The Gippsland railway line crossing just south of the intersection with Princes Highway in Dandenong South was removed in 3 August 2021. The contract was awarded in March 2020, [19] with construction starting in October 2020 [20] on a new road bridge over the rail line on an alignment just east of the original level crossing to a new intersection with Princes Highway; construction was completed and the new alignment was opened to traffic in 3 August 2021. [21]

Major intersections and towns

LGALocation [1] km [1] miDestinationsNotes
Greater Dandenong Dandenong South 0.00.0Australian national route ALT1.svg Princes Highway (Alt. National Route 1) – Dandenong, Melbourne, Berwick, Warragul Western terminus of highway
0.10.062 Gippsland railway line
0.50.31 Dandenong Bypass  – Keysborough, Moorabbin
1.81.1Australian state route 12.svg Greens Road (Metro Route 12) – Mordialloc, Keysborough Concurrency with Metro Route 12
3.32.1Australian state route 12.svg Pound Road (Metro Route 12 east) – Hampton Park, Narre Warren
AUS Alphanumeric Route C652.svg Pound Road West (C652 west) – Dandenong South
Dandenong South–Lynbrook–Hampton Park tripoint4.52.8AUS Alphanumeric Route M420.svg South Gippsland Freeway (M420 north) – Chadstone, City
AUS Alphanumeric Route M780.svg Western Port Highway (M780 south) – Hastings, Flinders 		Partial cloverleaf interchange
Route M420 continues north and southeast from here
Casey Lynbrook 7.34.5 Hallam Road (north) – Hampton Park, Hallam
Evans Road (south) – Lyndhurst, Cranbourne West
Cranbourne North–Cranbourne boundary10.26.3Australian state route 6.svg Thompsons Road (Metro Route 6) – Carrum, Berwick
Cranbourne 13.88.6Australian state route 4.svgAUS Alphanumeric Route C407.svg Sladen Street (Mero Route 4 west, C407 east) – Frankston, Berwick
Cranbourne–Cranbourne East boundary14.89.2AUS Alphanumeric Route C404.svg Narre Warren Road (C404) – Narre Warren, Belgrave, Lilydale
Devon Meadows–Clyde boundary20.112.5AUS Alphanumeric Route C778.svg Clyde–Five Ways Road (C778 north) – Clyde, Berwick
Fisheries Road (south) – Cannons Creek, Pearcedale
Tooradin–Devon Meadows–Blind Bight tripoint24.715.3AUS Alphanumeric Route C781.svg Baxter-Tooradin Road (C781) – Baxter, Pearcedale Roundabout
Tooradin 31.419.5Dalmore Road – Cardinia
Cardinia Koo Wee Rup 36.422.6AUS Alphanumeric Route C421.svg Rossiter Road (C421) – Koo Wee Rup, Longwarry,
to AUS Alphanumeric Route C422.svg Koo Wee Rup Bypass (C422) – Pakenham 		Roundabout
38.924.2AUS Alphanumeric Route C419.svg Sybella Avenue (C419) – Koo Wee Rup
Lang Lang 45.928.5AUS Alphanumeric Route C429.svg McDonalds Track (C429) – Lang Lang, Nyora
47.529.5AUS Alphanumeric Route C431.svg Westernport Road (C431) – Lang Lang, Drouin Roundabout
49.730.9AUS Alphanumeric Route M420.svg Bass Highway (M420) – Wonthaggi, Phillip Island Southbound entrance to and northbound exit from Bass Highway only
Route M420 continues south, western terminus of route A440
South Gippsland Loch, Nyora 60.937.8AUS Alphanumeric Route C434.svg Lang Lang–Nyora Road (C434) – Nyora, Poowong
Loch 68.742.7Victoria Road – Loch, to Loch-Wonthaggi Road – Almurta, Wonthaggi
Loch-Poowong Road – Poowong
69.743.3Former South Gippsland railway line
Bena 77.047.8
Korumburra 81.550.6AUS Alphanumeric Route C425.svg Warragul–Korumburra Road (C425) – Poowong, Warragul
82.051.0AUS Alphanumeric Route C437.svg Korrumburra-Wonthaggi Road (C437) – Wonthaggi, Inverloch
Leongatha 96.359.8AUS Alphanumeric Route B460.svg Strzelecki Highway (B460 northeast) – Mirboo North, Morwell
AUS Alphanumeric Route B460.svg Bass Highway (B460 southwest) – Inverloch, Wonthaggi, Phillip Island
96.960.2AUS Alphanumeric Route C454.svg Ogilvy Street (C454) – Dumbalk
Meeniyan 110.068.4AUS Alphanumeric Route C443.svg Tarwin Lower (C443) – Venus Bay
113.370.4AUS Alphanumeric Route C455.svg Farmers Road (C455) – Dumbalk, Mirboo North
114.070.8AUS Alphanumeric Route C444.svg Meeniyan–Promontory Road (C444) – Fish Creek, Wilsons Promontory
Foster 134.383.5AUS Alphanumeric Route C445.svg Fish Creek–Foster Road (C445) – Fish Creek, Wilsons Promontory
Agnes 152.494.7AUS Alphanumeric Route C447.svg Barry Road (C447) – Agnes
Welshpool 156.197.0AUS Alphanumeric Route C451.svg Port Welshpool Road (C451 south) – Port Welshpool
Woorarra Road (north) – Boolarra
Wellington Alberton 177.8110.5AUS Alphanumeric Route C452.svg Yarram–Port Albert Road (C452) – Port Albert
Yarram 185.2115.1AUS Alphanumeric Route C484.svg Tarra Valley Road (C484) – Tarra Valley
187.5116.5AUS Alphanumeric Route C482.svg Hyland Highway (C482) – Traralgon
Woodside 203.5126.4AUS Alphanumeric Route C453.svg Carrajung–Woodside Road (C453) – Carrajung, Traralgon Northern concurrency with route C453
Bruthen Creek203.7126.6Bridge name unknown
Wellington Woodside 203.9126.7AUS Alphanumeric Route C453.svg Woodside Beach Road (C453) – Woodside Beach,
to AUS Alphanumeric Route C459.svg McLoughlins Road (C459) – McLoughlins Beach 		Southern concurrency with route C453
Longford 248.4154.3AUS Alphanumeric Route C496.svg Seaspray Road (C496) – Seaspray,
to AUS Alphanumeric Route C497.svg Garretts Road (C497) – Dutson
249.7155.2AUS Alphanumeric Route C485.svg Longford–Loch Sport Road (C485) – Golden Beach, Loch Sport Concurrency with route C485
250.1155.4AUS Alphanumeric Route C485.svg Rosedale–Longford Road (C485) – Rosedale
Sale 255.8158.9AUS Alphanumeric Route A1.svg Princes Highway  – Traralgon, Bairnsdale, Orbost Eastern terminus of highway and route A440 at roundabout
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

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