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While the current O’Keefe Rail Trail upgrade and extension project continues for the Axedale - Heathcote extension, the Knowsley area and Mt Ida Creek-Lake Eppalock sections are both currently CLOSED to the public. The [...]
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 [...]
Nature and a bridge caused headaches!
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Knowsley Forest gains a rail trail
Progress of constructing the extension for O’Keefe Rail Trail has now connected Axedale with the Knowsley Forest, and the township of Knowsley is within eye sight! Work within the Knowsley Forest is nearing completion, as [...]
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 [...]
Bridges return to the former railway line
For the past 56 years since the former railway line closed in the Heathcote to Knowsley area, only failing timber piles from those railway bridges were the visible reminders of these once important structures. Now [...]
Volunteers help build a great rail trail
Community volunteer involvement continues for the current O’Keefe Rail Trail project, while contractor's work edges the trail’s extension forward between Heathcote and Axedale. The Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail group advises the City of [...]