Newmarket Railway Station, New Zealand

Newmarket
Auckland Transport Urban rail
An overview of Newmarket Station shortly after its redevelopment.
Location	Newmarket, Auckland
Coordinates	36°52′11″S 174°46′44″E / 36.869626°S 174.778882°E / -36.869626; 174.778882
Owned by	Auckland Transport, KiwiRail
Line(s)	North Auckland Line Newmarket Line
Platforms	Island platforms, 180m
Tracks	Mainline (2), Other (1)
Construction
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Other information
Station code	NWT
History
Opened	1873
Closed	January 2008
Rebuilt	January 2008 - 2010
Electrified	25kV AC
Previous names	Newmarket Junction
Traffic
Passengers (2009)	3,489/day
Services
KiwiRail   Preceding station   Transdev Auckland   Following station Britomart Terminus Onehunga Line Remuera (evenings and weekends only) toward Onehunga Ellerslie toward Onehunga Parnell toward Britomart Southern Line Remuera toward Papakura Parnell (evenings and weekends only) toward Britomart Western Line Grafton toward Swanson Britomart Terminus

Newmarket Railway Station is a station serving the inner-city suburb of Newmarket in Auckland, New Zealand. It serves the Southern, Onehunga and Western Lines of the Auckland railway network, and is the second-busiest station in Auckland, after Britomart.

The station opened in 1873. It was completely rebuilt in 2008–10 and now consists of a two–island, three–track configuration with a concourse above the southern end of the station, with escalators, lifts and stairs to reach the platforms below. The redeveloped station opened on 14 January 2010.

The station was opened in 1873 and in its historical configuration it consisted of a single island, accessed by a ramp from Remuera Road (opposite Nuffield Street) and by a pedestrian overbridge which led to Broadway and Joseph Banks Terrace. The original station building was one of four island platform station buildings in Auckland designed and built by George Troup, Chief Engineer for the New Zealand Railways Department. It was built in 1908, at the time of the installation of double track.

The signal box at the northern end of the platform was built at the same time and was one of the few of that era on its original site and still in operation in the late 20th century, being the last full-sized lever frame box on the national network.

Newmarket was also the site of Newmarket Workshops, which opened in 1878, and closed in 1927, when Otahuhu Workshops opened.

The historical configuration of the station, near Newmarket Junction (the junction of the Western and Southern Lines), forced some unusual movements. Trains from the city had to run past the junction to call at the station, as they do to this day. There were two platforms in an island configuration, and all city-bound trains stopped at one platform, outbound trains stopping at the other. This was confusing as the outward-bound platform served both the Southern and Western Lines. This problem was partially solved by 'splitting' the platform into two: Southern Line trains stopped at the southern end of the platform, Western Line at the northern end. However the platform was short, so that this did not always resolve the confusion.