Circle route
Until 2019, the Yarra River crossing was over a bridge originally completed in 1891 as part of the Outer Circle railway line, that ran from Fairfield station to East Camberwell station, and then south to Oakleigh. The section of railway occupied by the highway closed in 1893, although the rail remained on it until at least 1919, and the viaduct was widened in the 1950s. After 1919, a single-track railway line ran through the middle of the Heidelberg Road-Chandler Highway intersection, with the opening of the Australian Paper Manufacturers siding, which made use of the old Outer Circle route from Fairfield station to the entrance of the company's factory. The siding was removed in the mid-1990s.