page_title: Soldiers Hill, Victoria
section_title: Transport
hierarchical_section_title: Soldiers Hill, Victoria / Transport
caption_attribution_description: English: Ballarat railway station at Ballarat, Australia
context_page_description: Soldiers Hill is a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia located directly north of the Central Business District. At the 2016 census, Soldiers Hill had a population of 2,803.
  Named Soldiers Hill during the first residential land sales in 1859 in honour of the Colonial forces of Australia 40th Regiment who were stationed there prior to the battle of the Eureka Rebellion and the Eureka Stockade riot, it is the earliest planned suburb of Ballarat.
  Soldiers Hill is an important heritage area in Ballarat and the entire suburb is covered by a City of Ballarat Heritage Overlay. It has a substantially intact Victorian era architectural character, with many of its buildings featuring an abundance of period detail including distinctive decorative cast iron ornament.
context_section_description: The suburb's proximity to the CBD greatly influences resident modes of transportation in comparison to the Ballarat average. In particular, most forms of use of public transport for commuting is more than double the Ballarat average, along with modes such as walking and cycling.
  However like most Australian suburbs, automobiles are the main form of transport, with the vast majority of commuters (64.1%) travelling to work by car (though less than the Ballarat average of 74%). Roads are laid out in grid plan, with traffic dispersed between them. With the exception of narrow lanes which provide access to some residential blocks, all of the streets are single carriageways with one lane each way.  There is only one designated collector road, Howitt Street, which runs along the suburb's east west border although it is also a single carriageway.  There are, however a number of moderately trafficked informal collectors.  These include, by virtue of their connection to the Ballarat CBD, the north south streets of Lydiard Street Nth, Doveton Street and Armstrong Street.  The east west street of Macarthur Street connects with the key north-south routes of Creswick Road (in Ballarat Central) to the west and Peel Street Nth (Black Hill) in the east.
  According to the census data, 7.1% of people walk to work (more than twice the Ballarat average). Pedestrian facilities include a network of footpaths on most streets, some such as Lydiard and Doveton Crescent being upgraded with tactile paving for disability access.
  At the southern end of the suburb is the Ballarat railway station, the busiest in urban Ballarat.  According to the 2011 Census, 4% of people commute by train (four times the Ballarat average and an increase of 100% since the 2006 Census). Growth in train travel is facilitated by major rail improvements.  Soldiers Hill benefits from the trend toward intercity commuting in being the closest residential area to Ballarat station.  An important part of Ballarat's strong railway history, Soldiers Hill is home to its main railway complex as well as the Ballarat North Workshops, a major railway systems engineering facility.  A number of historically used industrial branch lines serviced light industry in the 1880s, which was located along Creswick Road.  The 1888 signal box at Macarthur Street (demolished due to vandalism in 2012), although platformless, was once manned and was a drop-off and pick up point for trains used historically by students of Macarthur Street Primary.  A tramway (demolished in the 1970s) once ran the length of Lydiard Street Nth with several stops in Soldiers Hill along the way.
  Despite few bicycle dedicated facilities for cycling, it has historically been a popular form of travel in Soldiers Hill.  According to census data, 1.9% cycle to work (more than twice the Ballarat average).  A short segregated shared path runs along the railway reserve at Doveton Crescent.  Only sections of Doveton Street and Lydiard Street Nth have marked bicycle lanes.  Ballarat Railway station provides bicycle parking including a secure sheltered cage. Recreational cycling continues to thrive.  Soldiers Hill is home to Ballarat's oldest bicycle shop, Gove cycles on Doveton Street which has been a hub for local cycling since 1957.
  Three bus routes run through Soldiers Hill, although only two service the suburb.  According to the 2006 Census, just 1% of Soldiers Hill residents commute by bus (equal to Ballarat's average). There are dedicated bus stops near major intersections.  Many of these have bus zones allowing traffic to pass stopped buses, although few have shelters for passengers.  The Invermay (4) service runs the length of Doveton Street Nth to the suburb's west.  The Wendouree (2) service which runs along the spine of Lydiard Street Nth  with stops at Doveton Crescent (Railway station), Seymour Street, Clarendon Street, Macarthur Street, Brougham/Chisolm Street, Howard Street (sheltered).  The Black Hill (5) service runs through a small section of Soldiers Hill along Havelock Street in the suburb's north east  however it d
caption: Ballarat railway station complex from Lydiard Street
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