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Trilby Station Louth Darling River Outback NSW

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Today, Trilby Station is owned by Liz and Gary Murray and covers 320,000 acres and provides the visitor with workings of a modern day sheep station as well as a glimpse into our pastoral history With excellent riverside campsites, Trilby Station is the perfect place to experience the Darling River and all it has to offer.

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Louth:

Louth, beautifully set on the banks of the Darling River is a small service town (Pub, fuel and general store) about 100km downstream from Bourke and 100km upstream from Tilpa.

The town was originally established as a service point for the Cobb & Co coaches that serviced outback Australia. Today, it provides the perfect stopover (and river crossing) for the Darling River Run; an outback journey through NSW from Walgett to Wentworth on the Victorian/NSW border.

The town of Louth was created when T.A Mathews established a Hotel to service the river trade and the Cobb & Co coaches that used it as a stopover.

Louth is ideally located for access to the Darling River Run and affords a choice of eastern or western route along the Darling River downstream to Tilpa as well as the upstream section to Bourke and beyond.
Once a year, this normally sleepy town is host to a classic country race meeting (the Louth Races) in August each year, with over 4,000 people attending the weekend race meeting.

Louth also is the site of an amazing and emotive structure known as 'The Celtic Cross' - a 7 metre (24 ft) polished granite cross that dominates the cemetery on the hill overlooking the town. The cross was constructed by the founder of Louth, Thomas Matthews, who erected the monument as a perpetual memorial to wife, Mary Mathews, who died in 1866. Significant anywhere, the Celtic Cross is even more so here as it reflects the setting sunlight to the space where the front door of their house every year on the anniversary of her death on August 19.

The monument is not only testament to the love and devotion of a husband for his wife but also the accuracy of navigation technology of the 1800's as its alignment was reportedly aided by one of the river boat captains of the Darling River. Anyone visiting Louth can observe the occurrence and the locals have thoughtfully marked the places throughout the year that the visitor can experience the 3 minute lightshow.

Louth is located about 1 hrs drive from Bourke (Dry weather road) and Trilby Station a further 20km downstream on the western side of the river.
Bourke is about a 10 hour drive from Sydney, about 11 hours from Brisbane, about 13 hrs from Melbourne and Adelaide.

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Trilby Station Highlights:

• Darling River river campsites

• Outback Free Camping 

• Billabong Camping (Tent & Caravan)

• Outback Bed & Breakfast (Cottages)

• Fishing on the Darling River

• Outback Interpretive tours (self guided)

• Bush Walking

• Bird Watching

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