All distances measured from Sydney Terminal (via Airport).

Station

Distance 

Origin of name

Central  0.100km
Green Square 2.714km
Mascot 5.191km
Domestic 6.743km Station is built below the Domestic Terminal of Sydney Airport.
International 8.271km Station is built below the International Terminal of Sydney Airport.
Wolli Creek 9.489km The Aboriginal name for the adjacent creek running into Cook's River. Also an Aboriginal word meaning 'camp'. 
Turrella 10.812km  
Bardwell Park 12.274km The construction name for the station was Earlwood. It is said to be named after Thomas Hills Barwell's grant, the boundary of which was Wolli Creek, Dowling St, Forest Rd and Wollongong Rd. 
Bexley North 13.547km Bexley, Kent, England.
Kingsgrove 14.803km Property named after Gov. Phillip Gidley King.
Beverly Hills 16.825km Formerley named Dumbleton - after Dumbleton Farm. Renamed in 1940.
Narwee 17.964km The Aboriginal word meaning the 'sun'. 
Riverwood 19.676km Formerly named Herne Bay. Renamed in 1958 because settlement originally built on an inlet of Salt Pan Creek. 
Padstow 21.519km Named after the Cornish town.
Revesby 23.143km Named after Sir Joseph Banks' home in England.
Panania 24.733km Aboriginal word meaning 'the sun rising and shining on hills'.
East Hills 26.207km First used in the Sydney Gazette in 1810 when a farm of that
name was occupied by Robert Gardiner, a tenant of George Johnston.
Holsworthy 28.934km Holsworthy, Devon, England.
Glenfield 35.214km The name of Charles Throsby's estate. 

 

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