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Friends Meet Along the Rail Trail

What better way to attend a formal daytime meeting, by cycling using the O’Keefe Rail Trail!The Axedale Tavern was the venue for the Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail’s June GeneralMeeting, with members and guests [...]

2022-06-28T21:21:28+00:00June 28, 2022|Uncategorized|

Trail Works for the Future

It’s easy to be a regular user of the O’Keefe Rail Trail and assume that nothing new has been happening for this popular 50km trail! Reality can be quite different; yet can those changes be [...]

2022-06-17T14:59:34+00:00June 17, 2022|Uncategorized|

Funding for Trail Supports Tourism

Community determination and fund raising efforts has paid dividends, with the Castlemaine-Maryborough Rail Trail being the beneficiary of a feasibility report grant. The Victorian government’s Enabling Tourism Fund will invest $120,000, adding to locally committed [...]

2022-06-11T16:35:30+00:00June 11, 2022|Uncategorized|

Riders, Railway Bridges and Country Pubs

Getting up close to inspiring old timber railway bridges and enjoying a country pub lunch were just some of the experiences that riders had, while on the Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail group’s monthly [...]

2022-05-31T07:52:01+00:00May 31, 2022|Uncategorized|

Community Walk Marks Trail

Community members shared a special goal with an historic walk to mark a section of the proposed Castlemaine to Maryborough Rail Trail. The walk took place along the closed former Castlemaine to Maryborough railway, between [...]

2022-05-27T09:08:23+00:00May 27, 2022|Uncategorized|

Trail Upgrade Works in Progress

Notice for all O'Keefe Rail Trail users. Trail upgrade works are underway in the section Bennetts Rd to Hodges Lane in Junortoun. Please obey warning signs, respect any directional requests being made by the contractor's [...]

2022-05-20T10:26:17+00:00May 20, 2022|Uncategorized|

Marathon and More Run Rail Trail

Crowds watched the finish of the O’Keefe Challenge running events on Sunday 1 May in Heathcote’s Barrack Reserve, as event runners arrived from the Marathon (42.195kms), Half Marathon, 10km Run, 5km Run/Walk, 1km Kids Dash [...]

2022-05-14T21:01:03+00:00May 14, 2022|Uncategorized|

Explored the Forest in Maiden Gully

Well away from road traffic, exploring off-road forest tracks as well as the site of a former historic eucalyptus oil distillery, members of the Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail enjoying this and more during [...]

2022-05-05T07:15:00+00:00May 5, 2022|Uncategorized|

Glow In the Dark Rail Trail!

The City of Greater Bendigo is trialling the installation of photoluminescent (glow in the dark) line marking along a section of the Bendigo Creek Trail as well as a connecting short asphalt section of the [...]

2022-05-02T15:35:38+00:00May 2, 2022|Uncategorized|
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