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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Rail Trail Improvements Continue
Soil erosion, collapsed culverts, loss of gravel surface, retained stormwater, exposed rock reefs were just some of what O’Keefe Rail Trail users have endured over a number of years. Yet that situation, in the Bendigo-Axedale [...]
Smart Track Picnic Area
Autumn days in Central Victoria are a great time to experience the outdoors. A new section of the extending O’Keefe Rail Trail meanders through the Knowsley Forest, one of the Bendigo districts managed box-iron bark [...]
A Trail of Two Tunnels!
The O’Keefe Rail Trail has two tunnels, yet were they initially built as tunnels for trains? Unlike many tunnels on rail trails built upon former railway alignments, both these trail tunnels have never had trains [...]
Riding a bay trail and more!
Trail riding is part of the experience of being a member of the Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail group. A social ride on the Hobsons Bay Coastal Trail was one such recent activity organised [...]