Toorale Station
Coordinates: 30°16′30″S 145°24′00″E / 30.275°S 145.4°E
Toorale Station is a defunct pastoral lease that once operated as a sheep station and cattle station in New South Wales.
The property is situated approximately 53 kilometres (33 mi) south west of Bourke and 130 kilometres (81 mi) north of Cobar. The confluence of the Warrego River and the Darling River is located on the property.
First established in 1857, by 1880 it was owned by Sir Samuel Wilson went to England and selling it to Samuel McCaughey bought Toorale along with another property, Dunlop Station. The old shearing shed was built in 1873 and in 1894 about 265,000 sheep were shorn there. In 1892 the poet, Henry Lawson worked as a roustabout in the Toorale woolshed. Lawson composed many works including A Stranger on the Darling, Bourke and Bosses Boots while at working at Toorale. McCaughy owned the property until 1913.
A Company, the Australian Sheep Farms Limited, with directors including Sir Arthur Stanley, R. H. Caird and G. Slade raised £400,000 in capital to acquire Toorale, Dunlop and Nocoleche Stations in 1925. Shearing in 1931 took nine weeks and had 24 shearers pass 81,000 sheep over the boards for 2,095 bales of wool. In 1936 Toorale was placed on the market, at this time it occupied an area of 850,452 acres (344,166 ha) and was stocked with 54,355 sheep and 1,089 mixed cattle.
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