Experience the New Year with O’Keefe
What a year 2020 has been! So many challenges for the world's population, including for those who love an escape to enjoy what off-road trails have to offer. Yet for many in COVID19 lock-downs, such [...]
Trail Signs for Reserves
What did you do on Friday 13th, perhaps nothing if you are superstitious! Yet six members of the Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail, plus one member from the Junortoun Community Action Group, were out [...]
Bikes on Buses for O’Keefe Trail
Have you ever been riding or walking the O’Keefe Rail Trail and suddenly needed transport means back to your starting point? Perhaps you were planning for a one direction only, or had a bike mechanical [...]
Lions Club Promotes Heathcote to Trail Users
The O’Keefe Rail Trail users are now able to be more informed, about Heathcote’s points of interest and attractions. The Heathcote Lions Club recently initiated a project to have two new information boards designed and [...]
Seeking New Rail Trails
A new community group is advocating for the development of a Castlemaine - Maryborough Rail Trail in central Victoria. This group are looking to transform the disused railway corridor between Castlemaine and Maryborough into a [...]
Rust Replaced By Railway Splendor
Rusting away for decades at the Korumburra Railway Station yards, one HY/GY railway wagon was fortunate to be ‘rescued’ by the Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail community group! Being one of a total of [...]
New Natural Environment Being Recreated
A piece of forgotten land within the industrial East Bendigo area and adjacent to the O'Keefe Rail Trail, which had consisted of an informal drain and non-native plants due partly to the impacts of the [...]
Caution – Works in Progress
Upgrading of a 26 year old section of the O'Keefe Rail Trail, by the City of Greater Bendigo's contractor, is currently in progress. This section is between Wilkie Rd Junortoun and Longlea Ln, Longlea. Due [...]
Rail Trail Bridge Naming
Some of the often admired engineering features of railway lines are the tunnels, bridges and cuttings. The former railway that the 50 km long O’Keefe Rail Trail between Bendigo and Heathcote occupies did not have [...]
New Life for Trail Seats
For the first 20 years, the original Bendigo-Axedale section of the O’Keefe Rail Trail had just four aging ‘recovered’ bench seats installed in 1994, as the only trail user facilities. When the Friends of the [...]