Midlands Road
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Start of the street: |
Great Northern Highway Walebing ( WA ) ( 30 ° 42 ′ S , 116 ° 13 ′ E ) |
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End of street: |
Brand Highway east of Dongara ( WA ) ( 29 ° 16 ′ S , 115 ° 0 ′ E ) |
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Overall length: | 271 km | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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The Midlands Road is an important connecting road in the southwest of the Australian state of Western Australia . It connects the Great Northern Highway in Walebing with the Brand Highway east of Dongara .
course
The trunk road branches off in Walebing from the Great Northern Highway (N95) to the west. After 22 km she reaches the town of Moora , where she turns north and takes the designation State Road 116 from the Bindoon Moora Road (S116) coming from the south . It crosses the Moore River and follows its tributary Cooderoo River north.
From Marchagee , where the Midlands Road turns northwest, it passes through an area with many salt lakes , such as B. the Yarra Yarra Lakes near Three Springs . At Mingenew it turns west, crosses the Irwin River and reaches the Brand Highway (R1) about 10 km east of Dongara.
source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 84