About Railtrails Australia

Railtrails Australia is a not-for-profit organisation which works for the development and promotion of a rail trail network Australia-wide. We have published three guidebooks for rail trails in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania which promote the concept of rail trails and facilitate their use.

Railtrails Australia is part of a growing international movement to develop and promote rail trails. Similar groups operate in Canada, the USA, New Zealand, southern Africa and the European Union.

We work to promote the sharing of information and support advocacy among the management committees of rail trails in this country and to build links with the international rail trails community. Railtrails Australia defines the key issues and tasks for rail trail development as:

engaging the community in supporting trail development
advocacy to all levels of government
expanding and marketing the network
supporting committees of management
sponsoring conferences and workshops to enhance skills and assist new rail trail development
developing technical documents to assist groups setting up and maintaing rail trails

We publish a quarterly newsletter, invite bequests as part of a Trails Forever program, and operate a web site with up-to-date rail trail information .

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