37-403: Northwestern Highway or North-Western Highway refers to the following: United States [ edit ] M-10 (Michigan highway) , a highway near Detroit, Michigan also known as Northwestern Highway; Northwestern Highway (auto trail) , a highway connecting the states of Illinois and Wyoming. Australia [ edit ] Calder Highway ,
74-593: A balance of vanilla taste with a crisp, crunchy pastry topped with a smooth and shiny glaze/fondant". The town also hosts an Autumn Art Show in April and the Mallee Wildflower Festival in October. It was the location for the 2003 Ouyen Raindance where 500 women danced naked in a secret location in an attempt to raise the spirits of the town suffering from a prolonged drought. The Roxy Theatre, in
111-607: A bypass west of Bendigo. Calder Highway commences at the intersection with Silver City Highway in Curlwaa (officially a branch of Silver City Highway, yet sign-posted as Calder Highway) and crosses the Murray River into Victoria over the Abbotsford Bridge , then continues in a southeasterly direction as a two-lane, single carriageway rural highway through Merbein and intersects with Sturt Highway just outside
148-596: A highway in Victoria , originally gazetted as North-Western Highway in 1925 and renamed in 1928; Sunraysia Highway , a highway in Victoria , originally gazetted as North-Western Highway in 1947-8 and renamed in 1972; Mitchell Highway , a highway in New South Wales , originally gazetted as North-Western Highway in 1928 and renamed in 1936. [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about roads and streets with
185-410: A post office from 1917 until 1980 and Cramerton with a post office from 1924 until 1969; and in the south Boulka with a post office in 1921, Bronzewing with a post office from 1921 until 1967, Nunga with a post office from 1914 until 1967, Gypsum Siding with a post office from 1922 until 1940, Boorongie and Boorongie North. Ouyen Lake, a 14.3 hectare man-made lake at the site of the old Ouyen reservoir,
222-420: A post office from 1925 until 1927 and Tiega 35°05′S 142°13′E / 35.083°S 142.217°E / -35.083; 142.217 ( Tiega ) with a post office from 1911 until 1961; to the south-west Timberoo and Timberoo South with a post office from 1913 until 1933; in the north Wymlet with a post office from 1912 until 1963, Trinita with a post office from 1925 until 1936, Kiamal with
259-425: A south-easterly direction past Elphinstone , Kyneton , Woodend and Gisborne , to reach the western suburban fringe of Melbourne. It continues in a south-easterly, and then easterly, direction past Calder Park Raceway and Keilor , before eventually terminating at an interchange with Tullamarine Freeway at Airport West . Within the urban section of Calder Freeway (between Kings Road and Tullamarine Freeway ),
296-468: A tram line – was eventually bypassed by a freeway-standard road in 1972 to terminate at a junction with Lancefield Road (later upgraded to Tullamarine Freeway ), rejoining Calder Highway at the western end of Niddrie; the freeway-standard was extended further west to East Keilor (the future location of the Western Ring Road interchange) in 1975, and to Keilor by the early 1980s. However, it
333-827: 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
370-482: The break of gauge . The line was used for interstate freight and The Overland as a broad gauge connection while the main Melbourne to Adelaide line (through Bordertown ) was being converted from broad to standard gauge in 1995. Property became available for purchase in 1911, and much of it was cleared for sheep grazing, and crops of wheat and oats . Ouyen is the commercial, cultural and transport centre for
407-608: The Country Roads Board. North Western Highway was declared a State Highway on 1 July 1925, cobbled from a collection of roads from Melbourne through Kyneton , Castlemaine , Bendigo , Sea Lake and Ouyen to Mildura (for a total of 324 miles), subsuming the original declarations of Melbourne-Bendigo Road, Charlton-Bridgewater-Bendigo Road, Charlton-Wycheproof Road, Wycheproof-Sea Lake Road, Ouyen-Sea Lake Road and Ouyen-Mildura Road as Main Roads. North-Western Highway
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#1732797266959444-545: The March labour day weekend. The area includes a number of previous localities which existed when the population was larger: on the Mallee Highway, Galah about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) to the west which had a post office open from 1911 (when the railway arrived) until 1976, Galah North 34°59′S 142°10′E / 34.983°S 142.167°E / -34.983; 142.167 ( Galah North ) with
481-746: The Melton Highway and the Western Ring Road is shown in the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan as part of the F4 Freeway corridor, which extends past the Tullamarine Freeway and Bell Street to Templestowe . In 2008, VicRoads completed the widening of the Calder Freeway from the Western Ring Road to Melton Highway . The road was widened from 2 lanes each direction to 3 lanes in each direction. The speed limit
518-460: The Ravenswood interchange and continues in southerly direction as a four-lane, dual-carriageway rural freeway which bypasses the towns along the highway's former alignment. Calder Freeway passes Harcourt - where the shared concurrency with Midland Highway ends, as it travels in a south-westerly direction to the major regional centres of Castlemaine , Ballarat , and Geelong - and continues in
555-679: The States and Territories usually on a 50:50 basis. As a major road link between Melbourne, Bendigo, and the state's northwest, supporting the region's primary manufacturing and tourism industries, Calder Highway was declared a Road of National Importance between Melbourne and Bendigo in December 1996. The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads : in 2004, VicRoads re-declared
592-494: The Women . "Hungry Years" describes itinerant fruit pickers travelling via train up to Mildura. Ouyen has a cold semi-arid climate ( Köppen climate classification of BSk ) with hot, very sunny summers and cool, relatively cloudy winters. There is a tendency to damper conditions in the winter and early spring months, which have the most numerous rainy days. The town has 130.2 clear days annually. 14. For more information about
629-515: The guest speakers and 150 guests. Volunteers run the theatre on behalf of the community. The town is the site of the Big Mallee Root , symbolising the time when the roots of Eucalyptus dumosa were a mainstay of the economy of soldier settlers of the area, being collected for sale as firewood. Ouyen has a reunion of past and present residents on the second Sunday of February each year at Fitzroy Gardens , Melbourne usual time at 11am at
666-674: The junction of the Calder Highway and Mallee Highway , 105 kilometres (65 mi) south of Mildura , and 441 km (274 mi) northwest of Melbourne . At the 2016 census , the town had a population of 1,045. The area was first occupied by the Wergaia Indigenous Australians . The name is believed to be derived from the Wergaia word "wuya-wuya", which some believe means " pink-eared duck ", whilst others claim it means "ghost waterhole". The town
703-550: The main street, Oke Street, was built in 1936 and owned by Hugh Ingwersen, a local business man. The theatre is a historically significant building (being one of six of its kind left in Australia) being of a tropical style (high ceilings and shutters which open along both sides to allow for airflow). It closed in 1971. After a major community project the Roxy re-opened in 2007 with a gala opening featuring Bill Hunter and Neil Paine as
740-451: The major regional town of Mildura , where widens to a four-lane, dual-carriageway road through southern Mildura and Irymple , in the state's north-west. It narrows back to a two-lane single carriageway road and continues in a southerly direction, meeting Mallee Highway at Ouyen , then in a south-easterly direction through Sea Lake , Wycheproof , Charlton and meeting the northern end of Calder Alternative Highway at Marong eventually to
777-769: The management, construction and care of the state's major roads from local municipalities. (Melbourne-) Bendigo Road was declared a Main Road over a period of months, from 30 December 1913 ( Castlemaine via Harcourt to Ravenswood ), to 30 November 1914 (from Keilor through Diggers Rest to Gisborne , and from Woodend through Kyneton and Elphinstone to Castlemaine ), to 20 September 1915 (from Ravenswood to Bendigo); (Ouyen-) Sea Lake Road from Ouyen to Mittyack , (Ouyen-) Mildura Road from Ouyen to Hattah , and Wycheproof-Sea Lake Road from Wycheproof to Sea Lake were declared Main Roads on 14 December 1914; and (Charlton-)Wycheproof Road between Charlton and Wycheproof
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#1732797266959814-469: The road as Calder Alternative Highway (Arterial #6200) between Ravenswood and Marong , and in 2011 as Calder Highway (Arterial #6530) between the border with New South Wales at Yelta and the interchange with Calder Alternate Highway and Ravenswood Street in Ravenswood , and as Calder Freeway (Freeway #1530) between Ravenswood and Tullamarine Freeway , Airport West . The Calder Highway between
851-475: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Northwestern_Highway&oldid=1103619441 " Category : Road disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Calder Highway Calder Highway
888-404: The south western corner of the gardens. A special anniversary on Sunday, 9 February 2014 marked the 50th gathering at the venue. The town has big art scenes with sculptures, modern and contemporary artworks appearing in the gallery and around the town. Australian folk rock band, Weddings Parties Anything , name-checks Ouyen in their 1987 song, "Hungry Years", from their debut album, Scorn of
925-752: The standard travel time, in each direction, is 10 minutes; 5 minutes between Kings Road and the Western Ring Road and 5 minutes between the Ring Road and Tullamarine Freeway . Between Red Cliffs and Wycheproof the highway has a speed limit of 110 km/h. The passing of the Country Roads Act of 1912 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
962-479: The stretch of freeway . A further upgrade completed in 2012 resulted in a new interchange at Kings Road (the freeways's urban / metropolitan limits) and closure of three at grade intersections in the area. Despite these upgrades the 80 km/h speed limit remained in place. Ouyen, Victoria Ouyen / ˈ oʊ j ən / is a town in Victoria , Australia , located in the Rural City of Mildura at
999-663: The surrounding grain farming region. Trucks bring grain to the silos at harvest time to be railed to Portland or Adelaide, South Australia for shipping, or to flour mills for processing. Ouyen has an Australian rules football team, Ouyen United, competing in the Sunraysia Football League . Golfers play at the Ouyen Golf Club on Daker Street. The clubhouse also houses the Ouyen Tennis Club which hosts an annual grass court tournament on
1036-514: The western suburbs of Bendigo , where it widens to a four-lane, dual-carriageway road as it weaves through the rural city, intersecting with Loddon Valley Highway and meeting with Midland Highway , where it narrows back to a single carriageway road and shares a concurrency through south-western Bendigo, widening again to a dual carriageway through Kangaroo Flat to eventually meet the southern end of Calder Alternative Highway at an interchange in Ravenswood . Calder Highway becomes Calder Freeway at
1073-508: Was declared a Main Road on 28 May 1915; and Charlton-(Bridgewater-)Bendigo Road was declared a Main Road, between Bridgewater and Wedderburn to Charlton on 28 May 1915, and between Bendigo and Bridgewater on 20 September 1915. The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through
1110-742: Was established around the Ouyen railway station , built in 1906 on the Mildura Line . The Post Office opened on 22 October 1907. It is also the junction for a railway line west parallel to the Mallee Highway. This line is in poor condition and used only for collecting grain from silos in small towns between Ouyen and the South Australian border, as the Victorian part is broad gauge , but the line from Pinnaroo to Tailem Bend has been converted to standard gauge , with no facility for handling
1147-413: Was later signed National Route 79 in 1955 ; when Midland Highway was allocated State Route 149 in 1986, it shared it as a concurrency along Calder Highway between Harcourt and Bendigo. With Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s this was altered to route A79 for the highway portion, and route M79 for the freeway portion into Melbourne (and the concurrency with Midland Highway
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1184-506: Was not until the 1990s that work began to duplicate the rest of the highway to Bendigo. The Howard government broadened the criteria under which roads qualify for Commonwealth road funding by introducing Roads of National Importance program in the 1996–97 financial year where such declarations were based on the recognition that roads outside the National Highway system also provide social benefits, and were funded jointly with
1221-554: Was opened 5 October 2018. The Ouyen Lake Project is a community initiative with labour provided by local volunteers and funding sourced from donations. The lake is used for recreational activities including fishing and Wakeboarding . Between 1998 and 2011 the Great Australian Vanilla slice Triumph was held in Ouyen. Judging criteria include "when tasted, should reveal a custard with a creamy smooth texture and
1258-411: Was opened in 1972, over time stretching west to ultimately become a project to convert the road to freeway standard all the way to Bendigo; the freeway upgrade has made sections of the original Calder Highway redundant, either incorporated into the new freeway or acting as local access roads. Calder Alternative Highway was declared in 9 May 1983, along the former Ravenswood–Marong Road. Calder Highway
1295-556: Was reduced permanently from 100 km/h to 80 km/h. The 80 km/h limit applies northbound from Keilor Park Drive to Melton Highway, and southbound it applies from the Green Gully Road bridge to just prior to the Western Ring Road interchange. In October 2010, it was announced that as part of a year long trial, the speed limit on this section of freeway will be increased back to 100 km/h in off-peak times (8pm-5am), with 30 variable speed limits to be installed along
1332-613: Was renamed Calder Highway in 1928, after William Calder , chairman of the Country Roads Board from 1913–28. In the 1959/60 financial year, another section from Elphinstone to Harcourt was added as a deviation bypassing Castlemaine , along the former Elphinstone–Harcourt Road (already having been declared a Main Road by the Country Roads Board in 1937/38 financial year ); the previous alignments of Calder Highway from Elphinstone to Castlemaine, and Castlemaine to Harcourt, were subsumed into Pyrenees Highway and Midland Highway respectively. The first section of Calder Freeway in Melbourne
1369-693: Was replaced with route A300); the New South Wales section was left unallocated when they switched to the alphanumeric system in 2013. Calder Alternative Highway was signed Alternative National Route 79 between Ravenswood and Marong, and was later replaced by route A790. Originally, Calder Highway ran through northwestern Melbourne as an undivided highway, ultimately through Niddrie as Keilor Road and terminating in Essendon ; traffic continued south along Mount Alexander Road to reach central Melbourne. Keilor Road – already heavily congested and supporting
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