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Trail Towns Expands View Options

The television program Trail Towns is dedicated to encouraging more families and friends to visit more cities, towns, and regions for a bicycle holiday, and when they do, stay, spend money, and help those places [...]

2023-02-03T12:42:18+11:00February 3, 2023|Uncategorized|

Bridge Reopened

Repair works to the O'Keefe Rail Trail by the City of Greater Bendigo has now reopened the trail's Campaspe Rv bridge, following damage sustained from the recent major flooding event. While additional works are planned, [...]

2022-12-21T11:32:27+11:00December 21, 2022|Uncategorized|

Repairs to Rail Trail Progressing

Its good news for the upcoming Christmas-NY holiday season, with the previously closed section of the O’Keefe Rail Trail at Lake Eppalock, Derrinal, now opened by trail manager the City of Greater Bendigo council for [...]

2022-12-14T16:08:56+11:00December 14, 2022|Uncategorized|

Bikes on Buses for Rail Trail Users

With the Victorian PTV ‘Bikes on Buses’ program having been rolled out in the Bendigo and Castlemaine areas in early 2022, the Bendigo Heathcote PTV service was included in that program after the Friends of [...]

2022-12-12T09:15:14+11:00December 12, 2022|Uncategorized|

Trail and River Benefits from Work

The benefits of community volunteering were shown when members of the Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail joined staff from the City of Greater Bendigo council for a combined working bee, held at the Campaspe [...]

2022-12-04T08:14:03+11:00December 4, 2022|Uncategorized|

Volunteers help with Flood Damage

Community volunteers from the Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail and the Longlea Landcare Group came to the Campaspe Rv bridge area at Axedale, on Sunday 20 November, to reinstate tree guards around those native [...]

2022-11-24T07:00:42+11:00November 24, 2022|Uncategorized|

Trail Repairs in Progress

While the O'Keefe Rail Trail causeway at Lake Eppalock did have its access gates open for a few days, unfortunately the trail's condition in this section has changed and it is not currently passable. With [...]

2022-11-22T07:30:17+11:00November 22, 2022|Uncategorized|

Reflections for Future Progress

Reflecting on the past 12 months of community effort, the Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail’s outgoing President Colin Scott in his report to the 2022 Annual General Meeting thanked the group’s members for their [...]

2022-11-18T10:01:31+11:00November 18, 2022|Uncategorized|

Whistle While Working

While operational railways have ‘Whistle Posts’ installed, for the loco driver to operate an audible alert at upcoming public road crossings, what does such have in common with the O’Keefe Rail Trail? As one of [...]

2022-11-13T09:21:51+11:00November 13, 2022|Uncategorized|
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