Heathcote talks rail trail
The Friends set up a stand at last Saturday's Heathcote Bush Market and talked rail trail to anyone who was interested. And there was a lot of interest. Works on the Heathcote end of the [...]
Cycle tourism advisory group established
Last Wednesday's community forum saw a great turnout to discuss Bendigo's cycle tourism potential. A small group of volunteers representing mountain bike and road bike riders, the rail trail and Heathcote community now forms the [...]
Forum looks at Bendigo’s cycle tourism potential
What is Bendigo's cycle tourism potential? How do we harness it to benefit local clubs and businesses? The Friends have organised a forum to ask what other cycling groups and businesses think. If you watched [...]
Exploring the Goulburn River High Country Rail Trail
There’s nothing warms the heart of a rail trail fan like a new rail trail to explore. So while we dream of our own long-distance trail, we decamped to Yea last weekend to check out [...]
Station signs on the way
The Friends have been promoting the return of railway station/platform signs to the sites of stations between Bendigo and Heathcote and were successful in applying for a council community grant last year for some of [...]
Rail trail research guru being interviewed
Dr Sue Beeton, the guru of rail trail research in Australia will be interviewed on ABC Central Vic (91.1 FM - or online) on Wednesday 4 April at around 8.50 am. If you can, tune [...]
New Axe Creek bridge complete
We're excited: the new bridge over Axe Creek is now open! No more sliding down the bank to cross the creek - the new bridge crosses at the same elevation as the trail. You can [...]
Axedale students take the rail trail to school
Around 20 students from the Axedale Primary School cycled to school on the O’Keefe Rail Trail on National Ride2School Day, Friday 23 March in the company of parents and the Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail [...]
Rifle Butts replica completed
While council contractors have been working on the new bridge, the Friends have been busy reconstructing a near replica of the Rifle Butts platform. The original platform was demolished, when the last small section of [...]
Looking for ideas to manage our historical collection
We're now amassing a great collection of material that we'd like to organise and make available via our web site for others to use as well. Can anyone suggest a tool that meets these criteria: [...]