[9] Local politician and sometime Premier of New South Wales George Fuller was a prominent landholder in the district – his father had named Dunmore – and in 1921 he subdivided some of his land at Oak Flats, on the southern shore of Lake Illawarra.

[10] The development of a residential area over the next few years spurred the NSW Government Railways to build a station for the new subdivision; this opened in 1925.

[3] The original station featured a single wooden platform and small, skillion-roofed weatherboard waiting shed.

The $6 million interchange, built by Bovis Lend Lease on a new site 400 metres east of the original, opened on 21 February.

The building features a double pitched roof, a band of tangerine-coloured glazed bricks, recycled timber beams and distinctive Y-shaped steel columns.