Australian road guide signs

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NEVER NEVER road.  Near Gerang Gerung I found this sign to the fabled Never Never. :)  And it was     suitably rustic too. Or at least rusted. I lived in this area when much younger and can remember seeing quite a few signs there that I wish I'd had a camera to photograph now. Including a wooden fingerboard signpost and a rather ancient railway crossing sign.

Hodges Road. An example of a fairly standard extruded aluminium street sign. Well okay. Doesn't everyone take a photo of at least one sign with their name on it? Coongulla, Vic.

Older cast street signs
Maffra, Vic.

Old "stack" style direction sign. The main noticeable difference between this and newer signs is its black background. Not a lot of these are left in Victoria. Note the peeling National 1 shield. This sign is on a bypassed section of highway and is deteriorating fast.  Longwarry North, Vic.

Current style of VicRoads "stack" sign. I can recall that only freeway signs had green backgrounds originally. Note VicRoads logo at bottom right. It appears on most of their large signs now.
These next few photos are at the altered intersection also mentioned in the warning signs page.
Stratford, Vic.

Here's the directional sign used at the intersection itself. Note the other smaller signs being hidden from view. The red one is for the Hewitt bicycle trail which runs through the area. I wonder how many cyclists have gone past this and not noticed it?  Stratford, Vic.

Here we see the blank side of the bicycle trail sign (and none to tell cyclists from Sale which direction the trail goes). Also notice the duplication of Sale 23 on two signs.

There should be no excuses for not knowing there is an intersection here. Presumably the reason the intersection was altered was due to an accident here. I'd noticed that if not for the signs, it simply appeared as if the bitumen ended and the gravel road continued.

Another sign at this same intersection. Steel posts with bracing posts as well.

Older type of direction sign. Still a few of these around. The two pictured have survived along the old   highway at Warragul. The red arrow is for a tour of Warragul that the local council came up with in the 1980's. In all the time I lived in the area, I never heard any publicity about it.

When Australia went metric, for a while there were distance signs in miles and kilometres. To help distinguish the converted ones, small yellow "km" signs were attached to the top of the main signs. Most are now long gone. But you can occasionally find them still in place. Many road signs back then were wooden. So when replaced with extruded aluminium signs, the yellow "km"s went with them. Note that the numbers do not match the place names in size or font.
Glengarry, Vic.

MACALISTER RIVER - MANSONS BRIDGE.
A typical watercourse name board as seen either side of most river or creek crossings. The bridge name sign is somewhat less common. This bridge however is not exactly a common type either. Wooden decked bridges are becoming scarce these days. This one has the added unusualness of being a curved bridge as well. Tinamba, Vic.

CROSS'S LANE and GIVE WAY TO STOCK signs.
Not sure on the correctness of the 's' after the apostrophe (I seem to recall from what I learnt at school that this is not how it is done).  :)
Anyway, this lane had a brilliant example of a Claytons crash barrier on a small bridge. I wasn't even game to lean on the thing. It isn't a sign, but I'll include the photo if anyone is interested.
Sale, Vic.

Metropolitan route 30 and 70km/h speed limit signs.
Australian's, as a rule, don't make much use of route numbering systems. As I read on another site. "Australians   navigate by name, not number". And this route 30 shield on Punt Rd, Richmond bears this out. It's obviously been here a long time. But Punt Rd is actually route 29. Bridge Rd; which you have just crossed if you see this sign, is route 30. Richmond, Vic.

Over-dimensional route marker. Marks the route required for oversized vehicles and loads. This one avoids the relatively low railway bridge at Stratford, Vic.

Gippsland Discovery. One of the Country Victoria Tourism Council's "You'll love every piece of Victoria" campaign signs. I hate to think what one of these costs. Most people are quite surprised when they find out the cost or road signs.
The pictures on this one appear to be of the suspension bridge in the Tarra - Bulga National Park, Wilson's Promontory (Norman Bay?) and the Walhalla Goldfields Railway at Thomson.
"The Billabong", Vic.

VicRoads direction signs showing route number (A1) and destination only. No road name.
Oddly enough, this one faces a dead end road. So it serves little purpose.
Stratford, Vic.

Lardners Track, Lardner Park, Lardner Park. Top sign is an older black background sign that has survived being greened. The middle one being the current green background style. Just why there is another sign underneath also reading "Lardner Park" is probably something lost in the mists of time.
Drouin East. Vic.

Another stack sign (because the destinations are "stacked" on top of one another).
This one is unusual in that the arrows also show a railway line.
Trafalgar, Vic.

M 95 kilometre post.   (Melbourne 95kms) An example of the trapezoidal Australian kilometre post. This example is in the earlier white on black colours. Current ones have a green background. Also current ones give the distance every 5 kms to the next major town. These earlier ones gave the distance from Melbourne (in Victoria at least) regardless of which direction you were travelling in. I notice some of these reappearing along the Princes Hwy around Pakenham - Nar-Nar-Goon. Some may just be older ones, but there are one or two that appear brand new.  The one in the photo is in Drouin, along the former Princes Hwy.     

S 15  (Sale).
White on green km marker.
Stratford, Vic.

M 65 (Melbourne).
Latest style km marker sign now used in Victoria.
The posts seem to be getting shorter all the time.
Nar Nar Goon, Vic.

The trapezoid shaped signs appear every 5kms. In between there are white posts with the intermediate kilometreage on them.
These 2 examples are in the Stratford, Vic. area

142 and 143 mileposts.
These 2 Victorian mile posts are at Stratford, Victoria. The 143 miles from Melbourne post is still in situ along the Princes Hwy. The 142 post is at the local museum. It also appears to be a more recent example of the species too.

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