Western Freeway (Victoria)
Vorlage:Infobox Australian Road
The Western Freeway is a 115 kilometre Australian freeway linking the state capital of Victoria (Melbourne) to the major regional city of Ballarat. Signed as M8, it branches off from the Western Highway (having come originally beyond the Victorian/South Australian border outside Adelaide) at Burrumbeet, 22 kilometres north-west of Ballarat, and ends officially in Deer Park, in the outer western suburbs of Melbourne, where it reverts back to a multi-laned dual-carriageway highway. Both the freeway and Western Highway beyond Ballarat are part of the National Highway network for the Melbourne-Adelaide route.
The Western Freeway subsumes and bypasses most sections of the older Western Highway. Former bypassed sections of the Western Highway are generally designated sequentially from C801 to C805, or (oddly enough) still keep the old National Route 8 shield (within suburban Melbourne).
There are still several at-grade intersections on the "freeway", particularly in the areas outside Melbourne and at Woodmans Hill just to the east of Ballarat.
Deer Park is planned to be bypassed by 2009 with the construction of the Deer Park Bypass from Rockbank, terminating the freeway at Western Ring Road which links it to all other Melbourne and interstate freeways and the CBD.
Towns along the way include:
Exits & Intersections
Western Freeway 
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Westbound exits / intersections 
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Distance from Western Highway (km) |
Distance from Ballarat Road (km) |
Eastbound exits / intersections
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| End Western Freeway continues as Western Highway  to Horsham / Adelaide |
0 | 115 | Start Western Freeway from Western Highway
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| Burrumbeet Old Western Highway 
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Burrumbeet Old Western Highway
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| WESTERN RAIL LINE | 6 | 109 | WESTERN RAIL LINE |
| Ballarat Sunraysia Highway 
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14 | 101 | Ballarat Sunraysia Highway
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| Ballarat Ballarat-Maryborough Road 
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16 | 99 | Ballarat Ballarat-Maryborough Road
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| Ballarat Gillies Street |
18 | 97 | no exit |
| Ballarat Midland Highway  
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20 | 95 | Ballarat Midland Highway
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| Brown Hill Ballarat-Daylesford Road 
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26 | 89 | Brown Hill Ballarat-Daylesford Road
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| Brown Hill Ballarat-Burrumbeet Road 
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28 | -- | no exit |
| Leigh Creek Old Melbourne Road 
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35 | 80 | Leigh Creek Old Melbourne Road
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| Leigh Creek Black Swamp Road
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36 | 79 | Leigh Creek Black Swamp Road
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| Bungaree Bungaree-Wallace Road
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38 | 77 | Bungaree Bungaree-Wallace Road
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| Bungaree Bungaree-Creswick Road 
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40 | 75 | Bungaree Bungaree-Creswick Road
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| Wallace Bungaree-Wallace Road |
46 | 69 | Wallace Bungaree-Wallace Road |
| Gordon Brougham Street / Abbington Park Road |
51 | 64 | Gordon Brougham Street / Abbington Park Road |
| Ballan Ballan-Daylesford Road 
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61 | 54 | Ballan Ballan-Daylesford Road
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| Caltex SERVICE CENTRE | 64 | 51 | Caltex SERVICE CENTRE |
| Ballan Old Melbourne Road
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66 | 49 | Ballan Old Melbourne Road
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| Myrniong Greendale-Myrniong Road 
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72 | 43 | Myrniong Greendale-Myrniong Road
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| Pentland Hills Pentland Hills Road |
78 | 37 | Pentland Hills Pentland Hills Road |
| Pentland Hills Mortons Road / Pentland Hills Road |
81 | -- | no exit |
| no exit | -- | 32 | Bacchus Marsh Bacchus Marsh Road 
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| Bacchus Marsh Bacchus Marsh-Gisborne Road 
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85 | 30 | Bacchus Marsh Bacchus Marsh-Gisborne Road
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| Hopetoun Park Bacchus Marsh Road
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90 | 25 | Hopetoun Park Bacchus Marsh Road
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| Hopetoun Park Cowans Road
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91 | 24 | Hopetoun Park Cowans Road
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| Hopetoun Park Long Forest Road
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92 | 23 | Hopetoun Park Long Forest Road
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| Hopetoun Park Hopetoun Park Road
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Hopetoun Park Hopetoun Park Road
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| Melton Coburns Road 
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98 | 17 | Melton Coburns Road
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| Melton Ferris Road / Melton Highway 
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101 | 14 | Melton Ferris Road / Melton Highway
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| Rockbank Mount Cottrell Road
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103 | 12 | Rockbank Mount Cottrell Road
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| Rockbank Paynes Road
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105 | 10 | Rockbank Paynes Road
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| Rockbank Leakes Road
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107 | 8 | Rockbank Leakes Road
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| Rockbank Troups Road North
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110 | 5 | Rockbank Troups Road North
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| Rockbank Hopkins Road 
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112 | 3 | Rockbank Hopkins Road
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| Mobil SERVICE CENTRE | |||
| Ravenhall Deer Park Bypass (Under construction) |
115 | 0 | Ravenhall Deer Park Bypass (Under construction) |
| Start Western Freeway from Ballarat Road
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End Western Freeway continues as Ballarat Road to Melbourne
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