Brisbane Valley Highway
| Brisbane Valley Highway Queensland |
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| General information | |
| Type | Highway |
| Length | 85 km (53 mi) |
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| Major junctions | |
| South end |  Warrego Highway,Ipswich, Queensland |
 Esk-Hampton Road |
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| North end |  D'Aguilar Highway, Lua error in Module:Convert at line 272: attempt to index local 'cat' (a nil value). south-east of Moore, Queensland |
| Location(s) | |
| Major settlements | Fernvale, Esk, Toogoolawah, Harlin |
| Highway system | |
| Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in Queensland |
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State Route 86The Brisbane Valley Highway is a state highway in Queensland. It leaves the Warrego Highway near Ipswich and travels in a northwesterly direction, following the Brisbane River until it reaches the D'Aguilar Highway about Lua error in Module:Convert at line 272: attempt to index local 'cat' (a nil value). south-east of Moore, where it ends.[1] It is part of National Route 17, which continues, duplexing with the D'Aguilar Highway to Nanango and then becomes the Burnett Highway. State Route 85 is duplexed with the Brisbane Valley Highway from Esk to the D'Aguilar Highway.
The highway crosses the Wivenhoe Dam about Lua error in Module:Convert at line 272: attempt to index local 'cat' (a nil value). north-west of Fernvale.
In the near future, the intersection with the Warrego Highway will be converted into a grade-separated interchange.[2]
Contents
List of towns along the Brisbane Valley Highway
Major intersections
| LGA | Location | km | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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| Ipswich | Blacksoil | 0 | 0 | Warrego Highway (A2) east - Brisbane / west - Toowoomba |
Southern end of Brisbane Valley Highway |
| Somerset | Fernvale | 16.2 | 10.1 | Forest Hill-Fernvale Road - Lowood | |
| Brisbane River | 18.3 | 11.4 | Geoff Fisher Bridge. This bridge spans the boundary between the localities of Fernvale and Wivenhoe Pocket | ||
| Somerset | Wivenhoe Pocket | 20.1 | 12.5 | Wivenhoe-Somerset Road - Mount Glorious, Somerset Dam (via Splityard Creek Dam) | To Brisbane Forest Park via Northbrook Parkway |
| Brisbane River | 22.5– 25.0 |
14.0– 15.5 |
Wivenhoe Dam wall. The dam wall is in the locality of Lake Wivenhoe.[3][4] | ||
| Somerset | Coominya | 32.6 | 20.3 | Coominya Connection Road - Coominya, Atkinson Dam | |
| Esk | 53.8 | 33.4 | Gatton-Esk Road - Gatton, Toowoomba | ||
| 54.2 | 33.7 | Esk-Hampton Road (S85) - Crows Nest, Toowoomba |
State Route 85 southern concurrency terminus: continues west as Esk-Hampton Road | ||
| 58.1 | 36.1 | Esk-Kilcoy Road - Kilcoy (via Somerset Dam) | |||
| Harlin | 89.5 | 55.6 | D'Aguilar Highway (National Route 17 west / State Route 85 east) – Moore, Yarraman, Kilcoy, Sunshine Coast |
State Route 85 northern concurrency terminus: continues east as D'Aguilar Highway West to Moore and Yarraman; east to Kilcoy and Sunshine Coast |
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See also
- Bridges over the Brisbane River
- Highways in Australia
- List of highways in Queensland
- List of highways numbered 85
References
External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
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