Friends of Bendigo Kilmore Rail Trail are proposing to construct a Heritage Precinct for railway memorabilia. The first site meeting was held Friday 25th October with the City of Greater Bendigo (COGB) and Bendigo Rail [...]
A new O’Keefe Rail Trail facility, as well as urban city cycling and walking, are two features in the current Autumn 2024 edition of the City of Greater Bendigo's GB magazine. Council's funded trail project, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Planning to cycle or walk along the O’Keefe Rail Trail during Monday 1 June and Tuesday 2 June, whether for commuting or out for some exercise with friends? If your plans include one particular section [...]
Being able to take time out, while out exercising and exploring the O'Keefe Rail Trail, to reflect upon elements of history and also more recent rail trail activity is one of the options currently available [...]
