Calder Highway Calder Freeway –New South Wales | |
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Calder Freeway facing Mount Macedon | |
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General information | |
Type | Highway |
Length | 560.9 km (349 mi)[3] |
Gazetted | December 1913 (as Main Road)[1] July 1925 (as State Highway)[2] |
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Major junctions | |
North end | Silver City Highway Curlwaa, New South Wales |
South end | Tullamarine Freeway Airport West, Melbourne |
Location(s) | |
Region | Loddon Mallee, Grampians, Greater Melbourne[4] |
Major settlements | Mildura, Ouyen, Charlton, Bendigo, Harcourt, Malmsbury, Kyneton, Woodend, Macedon, Gisborne, Diggers Rest, Sunbury |
Highway system | |
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Calder Highway is a rural highway in Australia, linking Mildura and the Victoria/New South Wales border to Bendigo, in North Central Victoria. South of Bendigo, where the former highway has been upgraded to freeway-standard, Calder Freeway links to Melbourne, subsuming former alignments of Calder Highway; the Victorian Government completed the conversion to freeway standard from Melbourne to Bendigo on 20 April 2009.
Calder Alternate Highway connects to Calder Highway at either end – just north of Ravenswood, and at Marong – and provides a bypass west of Bendigo.