Trail Counting – 24/7
Are you being countered as an O’Keefe Rail Trail user? How? No, there is not a volunteer sitting behind a tree with pencil and paper counting each cyclist or walker passing along on this trail! [...]
Friends AGM 2015
The Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail Inc. held its sixth AGM on 22 Sept 2015. The well attended meeting was amazed by guest speaker Linda Beilharz’s adventurers as a polar explorer, having successfully make [...]
Melbourne Metro trails
What a day it was, what an experience had by those who rode the Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail’s September ride activity, the Craigieburn to Southern Cross Station (SCS) Melbourne trail ride on Saturday [...]
New O’Keefe Rail Trail Video
The O’Keefe Rail Trail has recently been upgraded and extended from Axedale to Heathcote, making this a continuous 49km rail trail between Bendigo, Axedale and Heathcote. As an exciting new development for the region, this [...]
The 2015 Annual General Meeting
The Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail’s 2015 AGM will be held on Date: Tuesday 22nd Sept 2015 Location: Bendigo District Cycle Club Clubrooms, Tom Flood Sports Centre, Water St, Bendigo Time: 6.45pm sharp, finishing approximately [...]
‘Creeks with No Names’ Interview
ABC Central Victoria Radio’s Breakfast program announcer, Jo Printz, interviewed Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail’s President Garry Long on 11 August 2015. The topic was the O’Keefe Rail Trail and those 'Creeks with No [...]
Underpass improves access to trail
Works to bypass Weeroona Avenue Bendigo, for trail users, near completion. Photo: City of Greater Bendigo Works are nearing completion on a new pedestrian/bicycle underpass at Weeroona Avenue Bendigo. The path uses the [...]
Take part in National Tree Day
Andy and Rose Vincent, The City of Greater Bendigo, Photo: Bill Conroy The City of Greater Bendigo Council is holding a community tree planting activity, at the junction of the Bendigo Creek Trail [...]
Creeks with no names!
With the upgrading and extension of the O’Keefe Rail Trail has come fourteen (14) new trail bridges, making a total of seventeen (17) bridges crossing various waterways along the 50km trail. When the railway line [...]
Paris Brest Paris 1200 preparations!!
An extract, from the 13th June 2015 Bendigo Cycling Network Weekly Update e-newsletter, comes from Peter Carr's Audax Report for the Paris Brest Paris 1200 preparations : “Training for the PBP 1200 is going well [...]