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This is a cue sheet for the Bairnsdale to Nowa Nowa via Rail Trail Bicycle Map. You can print it out for later use.

Cumulative Distance Where Notes Direction Elevation
0km 0km East Bairnsdale (This route has been done as a part of a couple of tours - See 'Comments' Link) Start of the East Gippsland Rail Trail, on the southern side of the Princes Hwy just East of the Mitchell River bridge. ENE 53° 9m
0.31km 0.31km (McEacharn St crossing) E 83° 9m
1.8km 1.49km (Phillips Lane crossing) ESE 97° 20m
3.46km 1.66km (Morrison Lane crossing) E 89° 12m
5.06km 1.6km (Princes Hwy crossing) - Caution - Fast moving traffic E 84° 21m
6.95km 1.89km (Sandfords Lane crossing) E 74° 25m
7.57km 0.62km (Lanes Rd crossing) ENE 66° 19m
8.41km 0.85km Nicholson (Sarsfield Rd crossing) E 74° 17m
8.85km 0.43km (Site of Nicholson Railway Station. Nicholson River Bridge. Track to right leads to General store on Highway and park/toilets on other side of Hwy. Small picnic area on left. Railtrail becomes gravel after bridge). E 74° 4m
11.21km 2.36km (Stephenson Rd crossing) SE 113° 37m
14.03km 2.82km (Harmans Rd crossing. Bit steep up to road level, as this is a sidetrack - There used to be a tunnel under the road). ENE 46° 43m
17.26km 3.23km (Kettles Lane crossing) NE 36° 60m
18.66km 1.39km Bumberrah (Site of old station. Small picnic shelter on left). NNW 345° 65m
19.07km 0.42km (Pages Rd crossing) NNW 327° 69m
19.99km 0.92km (Tunnel under Swan Reach - Bruthen Rd) NNW 327° 61m
21.64km 1.65km (Tunnel under Stephenson Rd) ENE 61° 83m
23.13km 1.49km (Mossiface-Swan Reach Rd crossing) NNW 321° 52m
25.5km 2.37km Mossiface (Road crossing) NNW 336° 18m
26.49km 0.99km (Road crossing) NNW 338° 18m
27.2km 0.71km (Mossiface-Swan Reach Rd crossing) NNW 355° 24m
28.48km 1.28km Wiseleigh (Great Alpine Rd crossing) NE 41° 10m
28.9km 0.41km (Station Rd crossing) NE 38° 10m
29.84km 0.94km (Brooks Rd crossing) E 86° 18m
30.33km 0.49km Bruthen (Bruthen has a bakery, well stocked general store, several cafe's, hotel, camping ground etc). SE 126° 18m
30.51km 0.18km (Tunnel under the Great Alpine Rd). SE 123° 19m
31.3km 0.78km (For access to camping ground, turn left off rail trail onto gravel path and follow back along Bruthen-Nowa Nowa Rd to the main entrance of the sports ground. Turn in and head to the right). SE 135° 15m
31.46km 0.17km (Bruthen - Nowa Nowa [Buchan] Rd crossing #1) SE 122° 14m
32.74km 1.28km (Bruthen - Nowa Nowa [Buchan] Rd crossing #2) SSE 153° 27m
38.98km 6.24km (Bruce Rd crossing) SE 117° 140m
40.97km 1.99km (Seaton Track crossing). Also start (or close to) Discovery Trail/Access track to Mississippi Ck trail. The section down to Quarry Rd has some steep hills. Alternative Access to Mississippi Ck Trail via Lakes-Colquhoun Rd, Uncles Rd (sandy) and Quarry Rd. SE 120° 122m
43.05km 2.07km Colquhourn (Lakes - Colquhourn Rd crossing. I think Colquhourn railway station was somewhere around here.) ESE 95° 144m
45.91km 2.87km (Siberia Crossing Rd crossing) ENE 54° 133m
51.64km 5.73km (Rail Crossing Rd crossing) SSE 142° 60m
52.77km 1.13km Toilets (no water) at start of Stony Ck Trestle Bridge on Bruthen side. ESE 110° 34m
52.84km 0.08km Stony Ck Trestle Bridge. Steep/Sandy ascent & descent to bridge bypass track (Probably worse on the Nowa Nowa side). With loaded touring bikes, we used two people to push most bikes up the other side. (Also accessable by car from Old Nowa Nowa Rd....This is very rough and a bit sandy though !!) The Rail Trail between here and Nowa Nowa is also a bit sandy in patches. SE 117° 29m
57.2km 4.36km Nowa Nowa Path to Kingston St branches off rail trail to the right. SE 119° 33m
57.32km 0.12km Turn right onto Nowa Nowa Rd, and proceed down the hill. SSE 153° 37m
57.67km 0.36km Mingling Waters Caravan Park/Cafe on other side of Hwy. Hotel/Motel on this side. General Store and Nowa Nowa Caravan Park a few hundred metres left up Princes Hwy. S 174° 12m