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 [...]
Wallan Informed – Your Rail Trail
The Wallan Old Time Market is a true country meeting place, to have a chat, to purchase a variety of items and fresh produce. It is also a perfect place to meet, inform local people [...]
The first but not the last!
All sections of the O’Keefe Rail Trail were opened on Friday 15th May to the public, and this status was posted on the Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail’s web ‘News’ page late on the [...]
O’Keefe Rail Trail – Open for Business 24/7!
It has been 5 years in the making! As of Friday 15th May 2015, the extended O’Keefe Rail Trail is now open continuously from Bendigo to Heathcote for use by the public. A continuous [...]
Community Trail Project Begins
The Heathcote Lions Club’s direct support for the O’Keefe Rail Trail took a large step forward on Friday 15th May, for the club’s funded new Rail Trail Pavilion for Heathcote. The day was marked by [...]
Ride2School, a winner for Axedale PS
Out of bed well before sunrise, last minute bike tyre checks, cold faces and fingers, watching a distant bright light from an approaching rider, all added to the excitement of participating in Axedale Primary School’s [...]
Community Games involves a Rail Trail
Need an excuse to ride a rail trail in the early hours of the morning, to be close to nature, watching kangaroos feed, and hearing birds calling to wake the morning? One of the events [...]
New rail trail ‘pavilion’ expected
Heathcote and the O’Keefe Rail Trail will become the beneficiaries of a recent contract signing. A major project for the Lions Club of Heathcote formally began with the signing of ‘Agreement to Construct Ironbark Timber [...]
Restoring a part of history
The current O’Keefe Rail Trail extension project, from Axedale to Heathcote, is continuing in the Derrinal and Knowsley areas. The Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail members are never too far away from the ‘coal [...]