Newmarket Station (NKT)

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	5.6 km to Melb.
	12min direct to FSS
	no allocated spaces
	connecting services - tram
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Newmarket Station is the branch station for the Flemington Racecourse Line.  The line branches off just to the north of the station.

On Saturday 17/7/99 Up home 36 at the Up end of the Up platform was converted back to an Automatic and renumbered E.188.  Lever 36 and associated signal indication was removed form the panel at Kensington.

1-11-1860	Opened
1-7-1864	Closed
9-10-1871	Reopened
2-10-1918	overhead live Newmarket to Flemington Racecourse (first overhead)
12-5-1942	Sub Station siding removed
27-7-1969	interlocking and signal box removed, remote control from Kensington
24-1-1978	Darrell Lea siding out of use.
12-9-1986	lever C removed (end of good trains on Newmarket live stock sidings)

Coming Soon...

Go to the Metcard page for more...

Newmarket Up	MVM 2 -	018 1179
Newmarket Down	MVM 1 -	017 1113

Courtesy Rob O'Regan
Legend: MVM 1 = Small machine, MVM 2 = Large machine, BOM = Booking Office machine.

Link to Chris Gordon's website for this information...
Newmarket Signalling
(Chris's Kensington page includes Newmarket)

Signal Board - courtesy Chris Gordon

The Newmarket signal board inside the Kensington Signal box.

Asst'd photos - courtesy Tony Gatt

	A 6 car Up Show special joins the Broadmeadows line at Newmarket. 1997.
	An Upfield shuttle receives the Dwarf at Newmarket and shunts across to the Up line to pick up passengers bussed from Flemington Bridge station. 1998.
	A 3 car Comeng waits at Newmarket on the down RCE line for its return "Upfield" shuttle journey during Citylink construction on the Upfield Line. 1998.