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Melba Highway
Formerly
Length	65 km (40 mi)
General direction	North-South
From	Goulburn Valley Highway, Yea, Victoria
via	Glenburn, Dixons Creek, Yarra Glen, Yering
To	Maroondah Highway, Coldstream, Victoria
Major junctions	for full list see major intersections

The Melba Highway connects the outer eastern suburb of Coldstream, near Lilydale, and the town of Yea, in Victoria's Central Highlands on the Goulburn Valley Highway.

Route

The highway passes through the alluvial plains of the Yarra River and the rich Yarra Valley vineyards near Yarra Glen, rises up a steep grade between Dixons Creek and Glenburn to the top of the Great Dividing Range at a road junction that links the highway with the nearby towns of Kinglake and Toolangi, a former home of Australian author C. J. Dennis.

From there, the road passes through forest and open agricultural land before reaching Yea, a small pastoral town.

History

The road is named after Dame Nellie Melba, a famed Australian opera singer of the early 20th century whose former country estate lies at the southern end of the highway, at the junction of the Melba and Maroondah highways in Coldstream.

The road is within the Shire of Yarra Ranges and Shire of Murrindindi local government areas.

Major Intersections and Towns

Melba Highway
Northbound	Distance to Yea (km)	Distance to Melbourne (km)	Southbound
T-Intersection (clockwise from highway) Goulburn Valley Highway to Seymour and Shepparton Goulburn Valley Highway to Alexandra and Mansfield
End Melba Highway	0	111	Start Melba Highway
Yea
Kinglake, Healesville Healesville-Kinglake Road	40	72	Healesville, Kinglake Healesville-Kinglake Road
continues as	56.5	55.5	Eltham, Heidelberg Eltham-Yarra Glen Road
Eltham, Heidelberg Eltham-Yarra Glen Road			duplexes with
Yarra Glen	57	55	Yarra Glen
duplexes with	57.3	54.7	Healesville Healesville-Yarra Glen Road
Healesville Healesville-Yarra Glen Road			continues as
YARRA VALLEY TOURIST RAIL LINE			YARRA VALLEY TOURIST RAIL LINE
YARRA RIVER	57.5	54.5	YARRA RIVER
Start Melba Highway	65	47	End Melba Highway
Traffic Lights (clockwise from highway) Maroondah Highway to Healesville and Alexandra Maroondah Highway to Lilydale and Melbourne

See also

• Highways in Australia
• Highways in Victoria

Road infrastructure in Victoria Freeways Calder Freeway • Goulburn Valley Freeway • Hume Freeway • Princes Freeway • Western Freeway National Highways Goulburn Valley Highway • Sturt Highway • Western Highway State Highways Bass Highway • Bellarine Highway • Borung Highway • Calder Highway • Glenelg Highway • Goulburn Valley Highway • Hamilton Highway • Henty Highway • Hopkins Highway • Hyland Highway • Kiewa Valley Highway • Loddon Valley Highway • McIvor Highway • Mallee Highway • Maroondah Highway • Melba Highway • Midland Highway • Monaro Highway • Murray Valley Highway • Nepean Highway • Northern Highway • Omeo Highway • Princes Highway • Pyrenees Highway • South Gippsland Highway • Strzelecki Highway • Sunraysia Highway • Surf Coast Highway • Warburton Highway • Western Port Highway • Wimmera Highway Bypass Highways Old Hume Highway • Old Princes Highway • Princes Highway Tourist Routes Great Ocean Road • Murray Valley Highway • Phillip Island Road • Great Alpine Road