Chartered Surveyors Newmarket Suffolk

Approximate Population: 14,995

Newmarket railway station is on the Cambridge – Bury St. Edmunds – Ipswich rail line, formerly belonging to the Great Eastern Railway (later part of the LNER). Newmarket’s first railway was a line built by the Newmarket and Chesterford Railway and opened in 1848 (known as the “Newmarket Railway”). It branched off the London – Cambridge main line at Great Chesterford and ran about 15 miles (24 km) north eastwards. There was an attractive terminus in Newmarket, with intermediate stations at Bourne Bridge, Balsham Road and Six Mile Bottom.

Three years later the first nine miles (14 km) or so of this line, the stretch from Great Chesterford to Six Mile Bottom, was superseded by a more viable section linking Six Mile Bottom directly with Cambridge, and so the Great Chesterford – Six Mile Bottom section closed in 1851, one of the earliest closures in British railway history (the former Bourne Bridge station is believed to have been partly incorporated into a public house just across the road from a station opened later on another line – Pampisford, on the now-closed Cambridge – Haverhill – Sudbury route).

With the development of other rail lines the Newmarket terminus was replaced by the present through station in 1902; it was used as a goods station until 1967 and demolished in 1980. A short distance to the north east is the 1,100 yard Warren Hill tunnel. North of the tunnel, a separate station, Warren Hill, was built for raceday use.

In late 2006, Newmarket introduced a Park and Ride service running from Studlands industrial estate to the town centre, whilst at the same time parking charges were introduced to the town.