Re: Just wondering: why is East Hills East Hills?

[Chris Brownbill <cbrnbill@enternet.com.au>]

According to the NSWGR's Station Names book to which Roger refers to below, the
station names were:

Panania  (Construction name Nioka)
Riverwood  Opened as Herne Bay, renamed Riverwood 10/Mar/1958
Narwee  (No reference to Podmore)
Beverly Hills  (Opened as Dumbleton, renamed Beverly Hills 24/Aug/1940
Bexley North  (Construction name Bexley)
Bardwell Park  (Construction name Earlwood)



Roger Lloyd wrote:
> 
> I cannot answer your question but there were some name changes applied to
> the East Hills line stations from what was originally proposed. I have an
> old map of Sydney by Craigie's which dates from probably the late 1920's
> (before the Cronulla line was built and shows the East Hills line as a
> dotted line (against continuous line for the lines already opened).
> This shows the following station names:
> Nioka (now Panania)
> Saltpan (opened as Hearn Bay and changed to Riverwood in the 1960's??)
> Podmore (Narwee)
> Dumbleton (Beverly Hills)
> Bexley (Bexley North)
> Earlwood (Bardwell Park)
> Hearn Bay (or was it Herne Bay?) was changed because of the so called stigma
> from the migrant hostel. Why the others changed, I don't know. Maybe someone
> can throw some light on it.
> Were map makers Craigie have educated guesses or what! I have seen a copy of
> NSWGR's station names book (I don't have access to it now and some of the
> above names may have applied from the opening of the line.
> All I can say is that Beverly Hills sounds much more glamorous than
> Dumbleton!
> Roger Lloyd
> Deeg <galtfd@att.net> wrote in message
> K=coOc7QEvjglolyXlM9BdRklJnW@4ax.com">news:K=coOc7QEvjglolyXlM9BdRklJnW@4ax.com...
> > I've wondered for decades but never had anybody to ask: How did East
> > Hills get its name? It isn't all that terribly hilly and was long the
> > western terminus of a railway line. About the only think I can see
> > that it is east of is a bend in the Georges River.
> >
> > Answer this and I can go to my grave satisfied.
> >
> > Don Galt