ALL suburbs have their secrets, and The Junction, near Merewether, has more than most.
For a start, the heart of the area, where the artery of Glebe Road intersects Watkins Street opposite the Eastpoint complex, often wasn't even called that. It was called Howley's Junction after mine operator Thomas Howley. He ran the Glenrock Colliery, by the lagoon, with coal trains trundling along an historic oceanfront line between 1910 and 1942. It had two tunnels, now long gone, in the cliff face.
