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Castlemaine has never had a problem giving people reasons to stay out late. Between Theatre Royal, the Bridge Hotel, a festival calendar that keeps growing, and restaurants worth driving an hour for, the town earns its nights out. Getting home afterwards is the part nobody thinks about until they need to. If you have ever […]

Castlemaine’s live music scene punches well above its weight for a town of around 7,500 people. If you’re planning to catch a gig at Theatre Royal or the Bridge Hotel this spring, the one thing you don’t want to be figuring out at 11pm is how you’re getting home. Sorting a cab in Castlemaine before […]

Anyone who’s caught the last train from Melbourne knows the feeling. You step off at Castlemaine, the platform clears in about ninety seconds, the car park lights are on, but nobody’s in it, and it’s suddenly very obvious that the walk home to Campbells Creek is going to take a while. Or worse, you didn’t catch it at all. Either way, that’s the point where a Castlemaine taxi stops being nice-to-have. So, here’s how late-night transport works around […]