Club and Johannesburg Publicity Association, representing about fifty other bodies. The South African government would expropriate the Wanderers ground and after a legal appeal by those who disagreed, on 30 March 1946, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld the government's decision. The Government would pay the Wanderers Club £500,000 in compensation and the Johannesburg Council £1,000,000 in the form of land at Plein Square, New Kazerne and a small amount of land in Braamfontein and offset £300,000 owed by the council. Wanderers would move to their new grounds at Kent Park, Illovo, on 22 October 1946 where the club remains to this day. The new station would be constructed in four stages between 1948 and 1965, designed by the architects Kennedy, Furner, Irvine-Smith & Joubert with civil engineering consultant firm A.S. Joffe. The first stage saw the new station moved northwards and the tracks dropped a further 4m and the station entrance was aligned with Joubert Street and completed in 1951. This stage also saw the construction of the Johan Rissik Bridge in 1952 slightly west of the station entrance, as well as other bridges over the tracks. By February 1954, the old station was lowered and new platforms and tracks constructed. The new part became the station for the main train lines, while the "older" station would house the suburban tracks. Later stages involved concrete covers over the platforms and the concourses built on top with the slabs over the suburban station completed in 1956 and main lines by 1961. When it officially opened in 1965, with ten suburban lines and six main lines. Crime On 24 July 1964, Frederick John Harris of the African Resistance Movement planted a bomb on a whites-only platform of the Station. The bomb later exploded, killing a 77-year-old woman and injuring 23 others. Harris, a school teacher, was convicted of murder, and hanged on 1 April 1965. It was revealed in 2018 that Park Station has become a hub for abduction of women and children who commute or work in the area, who then become victims of human trafficking. In popular culture In the episode "Sugar Water" of the 1st season of the South African Netflix series Queen Sono, Park Station is exploded with a bomb by the fictional terrorist group Watu Wema, killing 95 people and injuring almost 250 people. Gautrain station Park Station is also the site of the