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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
With the O’Keefe Rail Trail being ‘reborn’ as a new continuous 50km trail in regional Victoria, what better way to identify this community asset than having it branded with a new logo! Prior to this [...]
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 [...]
The original contractor of the Bendigo to Heathcote section for the Wandong, Heathcote, Sandhurst Railway probably had many sleepless nights when building the original railway bridge over Axe Creek. In 1887, when travelling along the [...]
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 [...]
A look back into history, and how it once was! A look back on history, riding the rail (trail)! Riding rail trails today takes on a whole new meaning when viewing this photo. [...]
One by one, the missing historic railway marker posts (mile posts) are returning to the former Wandong (Wallan) to Bendigo Railway reserve. Most of the original concrete posts were removed when the recovery of the [...]