Just in time for some easy day-touring in the glorious conditions of autumn, Karen Graham suggests some of her favourite rail trails. We were lazing at a train station on a brisk autumn morning when a bike rider approached us. He slowed momentarily to say, “I have it on good authority that the train won’t
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This idyllic rail trail in the beautiful Yarra Valley is an ideal site for an annual clan gathering, as Andi Clarke relates. Family traditions come in many shapes and sizes and one of the most enduring in our family is our annual ‘Warbie Bike Ride’. Now in its 13th year, the ride started with my
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Rich in rail trails, Gippsland has some shorter options that are often overlooked but well worth a visit. Jon Miller has some route suggestions. Gippsland has long been a source of farm produce, timber and minerals for the people and businesses of Melbourne. From the late 1800s to the mid-1900s, a veritable spider’s web of railway lines
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Showered with unprecedented federal funding, Victoria’s brand new Great Victorian Rail Trail is worth every cent, finds Jon Miller. Tallarook, a small Victorian town about 100km north of Melbourne, near Seymour, is best-known for featuring in the Dad and Dave song Things is Crook in Tallarook. But this has changed with the opening of the
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