The organisers of a cattle drive re-enactment in Queensland say the event has reignited a passion for the region's beef industry.

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The Eidsvold Historic Cattle Drive left Camboon near Theodore in the central part of the state with 330 head on Saturday and travelled over a week to finish at Eidsvold Station.

Leaving Euroka Station, the cattle have an easy day ahead of them on their way to Eidsvold Station. ( Robin McConchie )

Station owner Anthony Coates said along with raising funds for charity and boosting tourism, the event has given young people insight into the history of the region.

"At each overnight stop they're being hosted by the owners or managers of the properties at which they're stopping and those people have become very much involved in telling their own side of the history of their properties and their involvement in the cattle industry," he said.

At each stop, riders have been treated to an insight into the history of cattle properties along the way. Many of them still have connections to families in the district.

"People that are on the trip are getting a really good introduction or a history lesson really on what has gone on in the past, and what probably will happen in the future, and which direction producers are moving, and trying to keep abreast of changes that happen in the industry," Mr Coates said.

"It was largely an exercise in alerting modern day people to the history moving cattle towards sales in the past."

An add from a sale in the 1903s on display at the RM Williams Centre. ( Supplied: Dot Hamilton )

At 83 years old, drover Ned Neumann said this drive is a little different to in his era, with better food and facilities.

"It's like a delicatessen," he said.

"The way they're feeding us the tucker's superb. They bring along showers and toilets, we wouldn't look good years ago coming along on the pack horse with a toilet struck up on top," he said.

Experienced drovers Ron Bligh and Ned Neumann are leading the team of volunteers. ( ABC: Robin McConchie )

Experienced drovers like Mr Neumann and Ron Bligh are lead the drove.

"They have a wealth of experience and have actually done this job in their younger years," camp manager and organiser Bruce Tye said.

Eighty-three-year-old Ned Neuman will be leading the drove. ( Robin McConchie )

The history stretches back to 1848 when Eidsvold Station was settled by the famed Scottish-born Archer brothers Thomas and Charles, who left their new home in Norway to explore large tracts of central Queensland.

They named the station after Eidsvoll in Norway, to honour the town where the constitution was signed in 1814 after the country gained its independence.

Drover Ron Bligh points out where the cattle will be taken. They've been driven along stock routes from station to station on their way to Eidsvold. ( ABC: Kallee Buchanan )

The drove is re-enacting a record-breaking sale from the 1930s when Martin Snelling cleared 7,483 head in four hours, selling in pens of around 200 head. Every one of the cattle had been walked in to the sale.

A century later in the 1950s it was the second stud in Australia to introduce Santa Gertrudis cattle, and was now the oldest Santa stud in Australia and had been visited by Prince Charles twice.

Organisers say the event is designed to reignite interest in the region's cattle droving past, but it also acts as a catalyst to show off the excellent cattle country of the Burnett and to attract new tourists to town. ( Robin McConchie )

The area was also home for a time to famous cattleman and boot-maker RM Williams, and the drove will finish with a charity cattle auction at the RM Williams Centre.