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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The 2014 Victorian State elections have resulted in a change of government, with the new Premier Daniel Andrews and his government ministers taking the oath of office in front of Governor Alex Chernov at Government [...]
Ever wondered what the O’Keefe Rail Trail looks like from an aerial view perspective? What flora and fauna is within the natural environment that this rail trail transverses? Bendigo Tourism has commissioned an amazing video [...]
It was a colourful eye catching Christmas ride and lunch for those on the annual Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail. Wearing the group’s new jersey colours, twenty members of the Friends group enjoyed riding sections [...]
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 [...]
Could Mitchell Shire become Victoria's rail trail hub? That is the focus of an article in Mitchell Shire Council’s Winter News. The Mitchell Shire will be looking to the State Government for funding, which would [...]
Between November 2011 and June 2013, the Office for the Community Sector, in partnership with Small Business Victoria and the Small Business Mentoring Service, delivered the Business Planning for Not for Profit Program. The Program [...]
Tuesday 1st July 2014, marked four years since the current O'Keefe Rail Trail Project officially commenced. This date also marked the 21st anniversary of the commencement for the initial trail project, to build the then [...]