What is Bendigo'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 [...]
There’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 Friends have been promoting the return of railway station/platform signs to the sites of stations between Bendigo and Heathcote and were successful in applying for a council community grant last year for some of [...]
Dr Sue Beeton, the guru of rail trail research in Australia will be interviewed on ABC Central Vic (91.1 FM - or online) on Wednesday 4 April at around 8.50 am. If you can, tune [...]
We're excited: the new bridge over Axe Creek is now open! No more sliding down the bank to cross the creek - the new bridge crosses at the same elevation as the trail. You can [...]
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 [...]
While council contractors have been working on the new bridge, the Friends have been busy reconstructing a near replica of the Rifle Butts platform. The original platform was demolished, when the last small section of [...]
We're now amassing a great collection of material that we'd like to organise and make available via our web site for others to use as well. Can anyone suggest a tool that meets these criteria: [...]
The Friends History Action Group recently placed a notice in the Desperately Seeking column of the Herald Sun and have since been overwhelmed with the response. Train buffs have appeared all over the state with [...]
Twenty-seven pairs of hands arrived to work on a section of the O'Keefe Rail Trail on Clean Up Australia Day, Sunday 4 March. It was the biggest turn-out since we've been taking part in the [...]