Murray Valley Highway

Murray Valley Highway New South Wales–Victoria
Murray Valley Highway at Nathalia
Type	Highway
Length	663 km (412 mi)
Route number(s)	Nil (Within New South Wales) B400 (Within Victoria)
Former route number	National Route 16 (1955–1998) (Vic.) (1955–2013) (NSW) Entire route
NW end	Sturt Highway Euston, New South Wales
	Mallee Highway Loddon Valley Highway Northern Highway Goulburn Valley Highway Hume Freeway Kiewa Valley Highway Omeo Highway for full list see major intersections
SE end	Alpine Way NSW/Vic border east of Towong, Victoria
Major settlements	Robinvale, Swan Hill, Kerang, Echuca, Yarrawonga, Wodonga, Tallangatta
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The Murray Valley Highway is a 663-kilometre (412 mi)state highway located in Victoria and New South Wales, Australia. For the vast majority of the course of the highway's length, the route is designated as B400.

The Murray Valley Road was built in the late 1920s and early 1930s by the Country Roads Board of Victoria as part of a program of rural roads to facilitate development of the more remote parts of the state and provide connections between communities in addition to the roads and railways radiating out from Melbourne. It is one of a number of roads designated as a State Highway in 1933. At that time, the highway ran from Corryong to the South Australian border. The western end of this route is now part of the Sturt Highway.

The popular tourist route follows the south side of the Murray River and effectively acts as the northern-most highway in Victoria. The western end of route B400 is the Murray River bridge at Robinvale, although the Murray Valley Highway crosses that bridge without the B400 designation (formerly as National Route 16) to connect with the Sturt Highway 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) further north. Historically, the Murray Valley Highway continued west to connect with the Calder Highway at Hattah instead of crossing the river. The eastern end is in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range at Corryong. The alignment of the eastern end changed in the 1980s; whereby the highway used to go through Thologolong, Walwa and Towong (the current Murray River Road C546).

The route also extends further east and crosses the border into New South Wales as the Alpine Way.

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