Old Princes Highway, Victoria
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Old Princes Highway Victoria |
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| Old Princes Highway through the Beaconsfield town centre. | |
| Type | Highway |
| Length | 52 km (32 mi) |
| Opened | 1920 |
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| Former route number |
 National Route 1 |
| West end |
 Monash Freeway,Berwick, Melbourne |
| East end |
Princes Highway, Traralgon, Victoria |
| Major settlements | Beaconsfield, Pakenham, Drouin, Warragul, Moe, Morwell |
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Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in Victoria |
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C101
C102
C103
C104The Old Princes Highway is a 52-kilometre (32 mi) stretch of road, formerly designated as a highway, located in Victoria, Australia. The road links the Princes Highway at Traralgon in the east to the Monash Freeway at Berwick in the west, on the eastern perimeter of Melbourne.
The Old Princes Highway route through the outer south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne and eastern Victoria, along former alignments with which originally Highway 1 had traversed through now runs as bypasses of towns, including Pakenham, Warragul and Moe via the Princes Freeway.
It starts at the junction of Monash Freeway and the Princes Freeway in Berwick as C101 and continues via the town centres of Berwick, Beaconsfield, Officer and Pakenham. The highway rejoins at Nar Nar Goon as an interchange with the Princes Freeway after 23 kilometres (14 mi).
The next superseded section is the C102 via Drouin and Warragul, a distance of 17 kilometres (11 mi), and is more commonly known as the Princes Way. The route runs directly through both of these town centres, starting with Drouin to the south and Warragul to the north of the freeway, where an interchange is provided 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) east of Drouin and 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) west of Warragul between these two towns for traffic wishing to bypass the other town.
Upon proclamation as a State Highway in 1925, the Princes Highway passed through Moe township along what is now Lloyd St and Narracan Dr (C103). From the end of Narracan Drive, the highway descended into the La Trobe Valley through the Haunted Hills, along what is now Haunted Hills Road. From Hernes Oak, the highway passed almost due west through what is now the Yallourn Open Cut Mine to join today’s Morwell Bridge Road at the Morwell River. From there, the Princes Highway used Morwell Bridge Road and what is now Princes Drive (C104) to pass through Morwell.
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