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 [...]
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 [...]
Dangerous crossing fixed on a Bendigo Trail
How to make a local trail, directly networked to the O’Keefe Rail Trail in North Bendigo, a whole lot safer? Thanks to the efforts of the City of Greater Bendigo staff and Councillors, the Bendigo [...]
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 [...]
Media Reports on Rail Trail Commitment
The North Central News story (page 3, 18th November 2014 edition), reported on an election commitment for the proposed Wallan to Heathcote Rail Trail, in lead up to the 2014 Victorian State elections on 29th [...]
Trail Feasibility Study Commitment
Clare Malcolm is committed to developing off-trails in the Mitchell Shire Council and the City of Greater Bendigo Council areas. Clare, the Labor candidate for Euroa, understands the benefits that rail trails can do for [...]