Railway stations in Newmarket
Newmarket 
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"New 1902 Station" building, now offices pictured 2008
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| Location | |
| Place | Newmarket |
| Local authority | Forest Heath |
| Coordinates | 52°14′18″N 0°24′26″E / 52.2383°N 0.4073°ECoordinates: 52°14′18″N 0°24′26″E / 52.2383°N 0.4073°E |
| Grid reference | TL 643 627 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | NMK |
| Managed by | Abellio Greater Anglia |
| Owned by | Network Rail |
| Number of platforms | 1 |
| DfT category | F1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.232 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.269 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.285 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.290 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.325 million |
| History | |
| Original company | Newmarket and Chesterford Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Eastern Railway |
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Newmarket from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Newmarket railway station serves the town of Newmarket. All trains serving it are operated by Abellio owned Greater Anglia. Following the sale of the station building for offices by Network Rail in 2011, plans were underway to build a new station building following complaints from local residents. Some improvements were made in 2016.
The first railway station in Newmarket opened in 1848 as the terminus of the Newmarket and Chesterford Railway. This station was extended with a new island platform and opened along with the new Newmarket to Ely line in 1879. Newmarket Warren Hill station, built by the Great Eastern Railway specifically for race traffic, opened six years later and closing just after the Second World War. The original station was replaced by a new structure in 1902 and a much reduced facility on this site remains in use today.
The original Newmarket Station (52°14′35″N 0°24′52″E / 52.2430°N 0.4145°E) was built by the Newmarket and Chesterford Railway on 4 April 1848 as a single platform terminus for the 15-mile (24 km) line from Great Chesterford. The line was extended by the Eastern Counties Railway eastwards to Bury St Edmunds on 1 April 1854, but trains had to reverse in or out of the station.
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