Midland Highway (Victoria)

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This article is about the highway in Victoria, Australia. For the highway in Tasmania, Australia, see Midland Highway (Tasmania).

Midland Highway



Formerly State Route 149 and 153
Length	449 km
General direction	Northeast-Southwest
From	Maroondah Highway, Mansfield, Victoria
via	Benalla, Shepparton, Elmore, Bendigo, Castlemaine, Daylesford, Ballarat
To	Princes Highway, Geelong, Victoria
Allocation	Mansfield-Barjarg: Benalla-Barjarg: Benalla-Geelong:
Major Junctions	Maroondah Highway via Midland Link Highway Hume Freeway Old Hume Highway Goulburn Valley Highway Northern Highway McIvor Highway Calder Highway Pyrenees Highway Western Freeway Glenelg Highway

The Midland Highway (A300, B300, C518) links the Victorian towns of Geelong and Mansfield in south-eastern Australia. It winds through country Victoria in a large arc, travelling via the towns of Ballarat, Bendigo and Shepparton. The total length of the highway is 451km.

Route number: A300 (previously State Route 149) from Geelong to Benalla; B300 (previously State Route 153) from Benalla to Barjarg; C518 from Barjarg to Mansfield.

The Midland Link Highway (B300, previously State Route Alt-153) links Barjarg (on the Midland Highway) and Maindample (on the Maroondah Highway), bypassing Mansfield and reducing the journey from Benalla to Alexandra by 19km.

A further, fragmented section of the highway that ran between the Princes Highway east of Morwell in the Latrobe Valley and Port Welshpool, on the South Gippsland Highway (previously State Route 190), was stripped of highway status in the 1980s.