The Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail group are desperately seeking items of local history, individual’s reflections, photos, memorabilia, oral history, anything related to the former Wandong, Heathcote, Sandhurst Railway (Wallan to Bendigo). Heathcote [...]
The benefits of rail trails and what they actually do for regional economies is what Deputy Premier Peter Ryan and National candidate for Euroa Stephanie Ryan both understand very well. Mitchell Bicycle User Group and [...]
The current O’Keefe Rail Trail project continues between Axedale and Heathcote towns. This exciting new extension has recently shown the public new indications of where the trail's route will be, along lost sections of the [...]
With the support of the City of Greater Bendigo Council staff and Councillors, upgrade maintenance works continue to improve the older sections of the O’Keefe Rail Trail. Bridges Two aging timber trail bridges, between McIvor [...]
Much has been happening with the construction of new sections of the O'Keefe Rail Trail extension by City of Greater Bendigo Council contractors. Due to land use change (the golf course, a bluestone quarry expansion, [...]
The O’Keefe Rail Trail's extension is progressing, through Axedale, the Campaspe River Reserve, the new McIvor Highway trail ‘tunnel’ (underpass), over a new Campaspe River trail bridge, and is now heading off in an easterly [...]
The new 3.2km section of the O’Keefe Rail Trail through the Heathcote urban area is completed, and 'open for business'. The use of this new walking and riding trail has gained much local support, as [...]
Men at Work! Friends members Steve Boswell and Mal Ward on the paint brush Over time, some dust settles, paint fades, and spiders weave their webs! So it was for the O’Keefe [...]
Ramp it up: it will soon be a smooth ride from one side of McIvor Highway to the other On our way back from the Wallan Market yesterday, we stopped to check progress [...]
Looking back: the view from the new section of trail to the Campaspe bridge and Axedale While the Axedale cycle tunnel nears completion, work has just been completed on the first section of [...]