Station Name: NEWMARKET (1st Station)

Newmarket Station Gallery 3: May 1968 - May 2005

Newmarket station looking north along the main platform towards the buffers c1968.
Photo from John Mann collection.

Looking south at the Newmarket station buildings in April 1969.
Photo by Nick Catford

Newmarket station looking north in April 1969, shortly after the track was lifted.
Photo by Nick Catford
Newmarket station frontage in 1975. The grandiose building with Baroque style columns has been carefully boarded up to prevent vandalism and damage. The building was supposed to be listed and future preservation was assumed.
Photo by Chris Hobdell

Looking north at the site of the low level island platform (right) in 1975. The surviving (at that time) headshunt is seen on the left.
Photo by Chris Hobdell
Newmarket station looking north from the island platform in 1975.
Photo by Chris Hobdell

Newmarket station building in April 1978.
Photo by John Mann

Newmarket station looking north from the island platform in April 1978
Photo by John Mann

Newmarket station forecourt in April 1978.
Photo by John Mann

Despite attempts to list the building permission to demolish was approved as it had become too costly to maintain, and sufficient funds for preservation could not be raised. By August 1978 the site had been sold to a housing developer.
Photo from John Woods and Alan Young collections
Taken in March 1981, shortly before demolition the buildings were getting more dilapidated.
Photo by John Attfield
Armstrong Close now covers the site of Newmarket station as seen in this view from May 2005. The station buildings were approximately where the row of houses on the right now stands.
Photo by David Farrant

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[Source: David Farrant & Nick Catford]
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