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New Facilities for Forest and Trail Users

The Knowsley Forest’s Smart Track Day Visitor Area has recently had new facilities installed for users arriving in this forest enclosed environment. With this area just 800metres from the crossing point of the forest's Smart Track [...]

2022-08-04T14:06:18+10:00August 4, 2022|Uncategorized|

The Community Says Farewell

Friends, cyclists and community members came together at Café Essence in Bendigo to wish Rob and Bron Nelson well for the next chapter in their lives. Rob and Bron’s involvement in the Bendigo community over [...]

2022-07-30T16:07:02+10:00July 30, 2022|Uncategorized|

Trees, Trails and Kangaroos

With a temperature of just one-degree Celsius providing a cold winter’s morning start, volunteer members of the Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail community group came together for a working bee at the O’Keefe Rail [...]

2022-07-13T21:25:31+10:00July 13, 2022|Uncategorized|

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+10:00June 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+10:00June 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+10:00June 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+10:00May 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+10:00May 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+10:00May 20, 2022|Uncategorized|
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