Re: [NSW] Woollahra Railway Station

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Paul" <none@news.com> wrote in message
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| "Chris Reardon" <reardo@northnet.com.au> wrote in message
| > I was wondering if anyone has any info on Woollahra station on the ESR.
In
| > particular I'm trying to find where in  relation to streets above
ground,
| > exactly where the station lies.
|
| If I recall correctly, the entrance of the station was to be in Nelson
| Street.  Escalators were planned to take passengers down to what would
have
| been the only outdoor station on the ESR.
|
| Public outcry from Woollahra residents, some of which were public
identities
| (shades of Bondi Beach extension?) forced the scrapping of the plans in
the
| early seventies.


They also got "No Whistle" boards installed.