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Wollstonecraft is a CityRail station the North Shore railway line, 7.2 km from Central station, Sydney, Australia.
It services the Wollstonecraft residential area and is sited between Waverton and St Leonards stations.
Prior to 1 September 1900 the station was known as Edwards Road.
Unconfirmed sources report that Wollstonecraft station owes its existence to the fact that the chairmain of the private company that constructed the North Shore line lived there, and insisted on having the line diverted through the suburb solely for his personal convenience.
It is an indisputable fact that had the North Shore line been built via the most direct route between St Leonards and North Sydney it would have bypassed Wollstonecraft and Waverton completely; that its actual route through those two stations constitutes a major, unneccesary deviation in the line — to the extent that Wollstonecraft station itself is sited on a very sharp 200m radius curve — would seem to indicate that such reports have at least some foundation in truth.
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