boxythingy wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 8:56 pm
Was it foolish for them to name two stations called Wynyard and Vineyard which sound similar yet on total opposite sides of the city?
Why name stations like North Sydney or Bexley North and leave people thinking where the West, East or South versions of the stations are? Can we also get consistency on whether the direction comes first or last?
Should the direction be an adverb, e.g. Northern Sydney so it makes grammatical sense?
Where are the hills east of East Hills? Where is the actual Bardwell Park in Bardwell Park?
Don't even get me started on St Marys, St James, St Leonards, these are very strange street names
Regarding Vineyard and Wynyard, I think that only a German tourist could become confused
Bardwell Park is not as simple as it sounds.
Bardwell Park was named after a free settler named Thomas Hill Bardwell who was given a land grant which was bounded by Wolli Creek, Dowling Street and Wollongong Road.
The meaning of word 'park' is an old word, recorded in history as Old French ‘parc’ and from Medieval Latin to mean an enclosure‘parricus'.
East Hills was the name of a large area of land South of Bankstown, the land was granted to George Johnstone in 1804 and was bounded by The River Rd towards the East and the Georges River towards the South. There was a tenant on this property who had a farm that he called 'East Hills'.
In 1828 Thomas Graham received a land grant, this land was West of George Johnstone's land and was sold a number of times and eventually sub divided. This is when the suburb of East Hills came about in 1893.
Between East Hills (George's River) and Padstow (Salt Pan Creek) there are small hills in an East West orientation. Both the road and train line follow this geography, although the train line geography has cuttings to ensure that the gradients are not steep. East Hills to Panania is relatively flat with only one minor Hill in Park Rd near East Hills Station. There are pitches in hills which have been exploited by engineers to create bridges over the train line with no impact to the gradient of the roads: Marco Ave & Weston St linked by Carson St bridge (Revesby) and Doyle Rd/Badderley St (Padstow). Between these two hills the geography becomes lower, the train line crosses over The River Rd.