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		<title>Forum looks at Bendigo&#8217;s cycle tourism potential</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is Bendigo&#8217;s cycle tourism potential? How do we harness it to benefit local clubs and businesses? The Friends have organised a forum to ask what other cycling groups and businesses think. If you watched any of the Tour de France last year, you might remember the Ballarat cycling ad that played constantly during the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bendigokilmorerailtrail.com&#038;blog=7096720&#038;post=594&#038;subd=bendigokilmorerailtrail&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring the Goulburn River High Country Rail Trail</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s nothing warms the heart of a rail trail fan like a new rail trail to explore. So while we dream of our own long-distance trail, we decamped to Yea last weekend to check out the newly-completed Goulburn River High Country Rail Trail between Tallarook and Alexandra. (If we&#8217;d had a third day we would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bendigokilmorerailtrail.com&#038;blog=7096720&#038;post=588&#038;subd=bendigokilmorerailtrail&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Axedale students take the rail trail to school</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 02:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around 20 students from the Axedale Primary School cycled to school on the O’Keefe Rail Trail on National Ride2School Day, Friday 23 March in the company of parents and the Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail – and the kids said they loved it. Around ten senior students, parents and three members of the Friends [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bendigokilmorerailtrail.com&#038;blog=7096720&#038;post=545&#038;subd=bendigokilmorerailtrail&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friends clean up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 05:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-seven pairs of hands arrived to work on a section of the O&#8217;Keefe Rail Trail on Clean Up Australia Day, Sunday 4 March. It was the biggest turn-out since we&#8217;ve been taking part in the event and meant we were finished within a couple of hours. Apart from the usual bottles, lunch wrappings, foam coffee [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bendigokilmorerailtrail.com&#038;blog=7096720&#038;post=531&#038;subd=bendigokilmorerailtrail&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friends join forces for tree planting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A successful tree planting project was completed on the O’Keefe Rail Trail at Longlea on 30 October 2011. This was a joint project with the Friends of Kennington Reservoir group and was arranged with the assistance of City of Greater Bendigo council. The planting site was selected on the trail’s bypass section around the former [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bendigokilmorerailtrail.com&#038;blog=7096720&#038;post=450&#038;subd=bendigokilmorerailtrail&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ride the Ballarat – Skipton Rail Trail Saturday 7th May, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join the Friends of Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail on Saturday 7th May 2011, as we ride the Ballarat-Skipton Rail Trail. The rail trail is 53 km long and has a fine gravel surface, suitable for MTB and hybrid bikes. It traverses rolling hills, scrub-land forests and grassy plains. It crosses the historic Nimmons trestle bridge at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bendigokilmorerailtrail.com&#038;blog=7096720&#038;post=303&#038;subd=bendigokilmorerailtrail&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Local business thanked for reviving rail history</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 04:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hanson Bendigo’s contribution to restoring part of the history of the O’Keefe Rail Trail was recognised when the Friends presented a certificate of appreciation to Kevin Benbow, Plant Manager, early in October. &#160; &#160; The company has donated all the concrete to recreate 11 ‘mile’ posts, which will eventually be installed along the trail between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bendigokilmorerailtrail.com&#038;blog=7096720&#038;post=275&#038;subd=bendigokilmorerailtrail&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spring in the Bendigo Bush rides the rail trail</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wanted to ride the rail trail and Wellsford Forest, but lacked company? Well, join us for a guided tour on Saturday 2 October. We&#8217;ll follow the existing trail to Axedale and return through the Wellsford forest as part of this year&#8217;s Spring in the Bendigo bush. Enthusiasts will talk about the railway&#8217;s history and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bendigokilmorerailtrail.com&#038;blog=7096720&#038;post=260&#038;subd=bendigokilmorerailtrail&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late in August, a group of the Friends joined forces with the Longley Landcare Group and the council to plant around 2,000 trees and shrubs along a bare patch of the rail trail near Junortoun. Even before the deluge of last weekend, it was soft and muddy and no one came out of the exercise [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bendigokilmorerailtrail.com&#038;blog=7096720&#038;post=257&#038;subd=bendigokilmorerailtrail&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>O&#8217;Keefe officially a trail of regional significance</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The O&#8217;Keefe Rail Trail has been identified as one of seven trail proposals of regional significance. The Loddon Mallee Regionally Significant Trails Strategy investigated trails that have the potential to attract domestic and international visitors to the area showcase the unique landscape and cultural features invigorate local communities enhance the region’s reputation as a key [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bendigokilmorerailtrail.com&#038;blog=7096720&#038;post=254&#038;subd=bendigokilmorerailtrail&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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