Newmarket High Level railway station

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Legend
section of line year opened year closed
1854 –– to Bury St Edmunds 1880 –– Chippenham Junction Snailwell Junction to Ely 1879 –– 1854 –– 1879 1966? Warren Hill Junction Warren Hill 1885 c.1948 1854 –– Warren Hill Tunnel 1100 yd 1006 m Newmarket High Level 1848 1902 1879 1902 1848 –– 1858 –– Newmarket 1902 –– 1848 –– 1848 –– to Great Chesterford & London (to 1851) to Cambridge (from 1851)

The Newmarket High Level railway station (52°14′35″N 0°24′52″E / 52.2430°N 0.4145°E / 52.2430; 0.4145 (Newmarket railway station (1848))) 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.^[1]Pring, George (April 1993). "Newmarket (Suffolk)". Great Eastern Journal. Vol. 74. Great Eastern Railway Society. p. 25.</ref>

Sir Nickolaus Pevsner described the station thus: "was one of the most sumptuously Baroque stations of the early Victorian decades in England. Seven bays, one story divided by coupled Ionic giant columns carrying protected pieces of entablature and big chunks of decorated attic."^[2]