 When the Eastern Suburbs Line was under construction in the 1960s and 1970s, the plan was to locate a station in a closed off grass cutting backing onto the backyards of properties on four surrounding streets.It is believed that the cutting had, for many years, been owned and preserved by the then NSW Department of Railways, as a future potential railway site.Local residents, unaware of this, would use the pleasant but enclosed grassy cutting as a hidden local park.