The Trangie Post Office

Trangie
Pleasant small country service centre.
Trangie is small country service centre of some 1100 people, situated 493 km north-west of Sydney and 220 metres above sea-level in the Macquarie Valley Irrigation Area. It is located on the main western railway line and on the Mitchell Highway, between Narromine (35 km south-east) and Nyngan (90 km north-west). Trangie has a caravan park and three fine corner-block pubs.

As you enter the town from the south you cross the Goan Waterhole which, at certain times, can be a spectacular display of mosses and water plants. The townscape is dominated by the Trangie silo - a testimony to the centrality of wheat to Narromine Shire. There are weekly fat cattle sales and vast cotton fields outside the town. Sheep, wool, sorghum and fat lambs are also important to the shire's economy.

The area is thought to have been occupied by the Wongaibon Aborigines prior to white settlement. 'Trangie' is an indigenous word said to mean 'quick'.

The town later developed on 'Weemaabah' station, established, presumably, in the 1830s. It was used for the grazing of cattle and, later, for sheep-grazing and horse-breeding.

The Cobb & Co. coach service from Dubbo to Bourke passed through the property and stopped at the Swinging Gate Hotel, up-river. However, a township did not develop until the railway arrived in 1882, en route from Dubbo to Nevertire. Local wool producers benefited greatly from the improved transportation.

In 1909 an experimental farm was established to develop wheat-growing and the breeding of merino sheep. An Angus beef cattle stud was established in 1929. Saleyards were built in the 1940s and the first wheat silo was erected in 1962. Local agriculture expanded when Burrendong Dam was completed in 1967.

The small village of Dandaloo, 42 km south-west, was used as the setting for 'Banjo' Paterson's poems 'An Idyll of Dandaloo' and 'An Evening in Dandaloo'. The 'Idyll' reads: 'On Western plains, where shade is not....There stands the town of Dandaloo/A township where life's total sum/Is sleep, diversified with rum'.

Things to see:  

Soldiers Memorial

Tourist Information
Trangie Visitors' Centre is open weekdays, tel: (02) 6888 7712. The main information centre in the area is the visitors' centre at Narromine which is also open weekends, tel: (02) 6889 4596.

Gin Gin Weir
Gin Gin Weir, built in 1896, is located 25 km north-east on the Macquarie River. It is a pleasant and popular picnicking, boating, fishing and bushwalking spot with a sandy beach.

	Tourist Information
	Trangie Visitors Information Centre Imperial Coffee Shop Mitchell Hwy Trangie NSW 2823 Telephone: (02) 6888 7512
	Hotels
	Hotel Trangie Mitchell Hwy Trangie NSW 2823 Telephone: (02) 6888 7554 Facsimile: (02) 6888 7557
	Imperial Hotel Mitchell Hwy Trangie NSW 2823 Telephone: (02) 6888 7512
	Imperial Hotel Mitchell Hwy Trangie NSW 2823 Telephone: (02) 6888 7512
	Royal Hotel Dandaloo St Trangie NSW 2823 Telephone: (02) 6888 7191 Facsimile: (02) 6888 8210
	Caravan Parks
	Tandara Caravan Park 55 John St Trangie NSW 2823 Telephone: (02) 6888 7330 Facsimile: (02) 6888 7330 Rating: ***1/2
	Trangie Caravan Park 38 Goan St Trangie NSW 2823 Telephone: (02) 6888 7511 Rating: ***
	Restaurants
	Hotel Trangie Mitchell Hwy Trangie NSW 2823 Telephone: (02) 6888 7554
	Imperial Hotel Mitchell Hwy Trangie NSW 2823 Telephone: (02) 6888 7512
	Royal Hotel cnr Dandaloo & Derribong Sts Trangie NSW 2823 Telephone: (02) 6888 7191
	Trangie Bowling Club Dandaloo St Trangie NSW 2823 Telephone: (02) 6888 7055
	United Services Memorial Club 56 Dandaloo St Trangie NSW 2823 Telephone: (02) 6888 7177
	Cafés
	Imperial Coffee Shop Mitchell Hwy Trangie NSW 2823 Telephone: (02) 6888 7512
	Trangie Mini Mart 68 Narromine St Trangie NSW 2823 Telephone: (02) 6888 7650
	Trocadero Cafe Dandaloo St Trangie NSW 2823 Telephone: (02) 6888 7594