 The area, being surrounded by the high rocky escarpment that is Edgecliff Road, Woollahra, contained many trees and was a sanctuary for bird life.The local residents, appalled to learn in the 1960s that the cutting would become a heavy railway station - to boot, the only above ground station on the line - lobbied the Government of New South Wales vigorously to oppose the station.In the meantime, construction work on the Eastern Suburbs line was slowing down due to various factors including the cost blow-outs of the project.