Conservancy volunteers clean up Hillcrest railway station
The Hillcrest Conservancy volunteers plan to to improve the gardens and make the area at the Hillcrest railway station more presentable to the public.
HILLCREST Conservancy volunteers, Charmaine Davisworth, Innocent Khanyile and Frances Amos, have recently been hard at work improving the area around the Hillcrest Railway station.
The station was opened in 1906 and boasted a first class waiting room and post office, and was the main commuter link for the school boarders from the area. The station won numerous annual best station awards in those days and, before the opening of the new main line, even had a bowling green
for the train staff waiting to cross trains.
The Hillcrest Conservancy women have volunteered to do some work at the present station by improving the gardens and making the area more presentable to the public. The station is visible from the monthly steam train, and it is hoped that this will be an attraction in the future as they
plan to plant more indigenous plants in the flower beds.
