Newark Northgate (alternatively Newark North Gate) is one of two railway stations serving the market town of Newark-on-Trent, in Nottinghamshire, England; the other is , sited closer to the town centre. It is a stop on the East Coast Main Line, down the line from ; it is situated on the main line between to the south and to the north. The station is Grade II listed.
History The station is on the Great Northern Railway Towns Line from to , which opened on 15 July 1852. The Fens Loop Line via and had opened two years earlier, as it had been easier to construct.Body, p.116
The station opened without any ceremony. The first train of passengers from the north arrived at 06:38 and those from the south arrived at 08:05. The buildings comprised a booking office, cloakroom, first and second class ladies’ and other waiting rooms, with a large refreshment room by and a smaller one by . The platforms were long, with awnings provided for of their length. There was a coal depot, goods warehouse and sheds to accommodate four locomotives.
The station became a junction in 1879, with the opening of the Great Northern Railway branch to , built as a northern extension of the Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway which opened at the same time. Services from Newark were provided to or and also to . Services onto the joint line from Newark were withdrawn by 1922.Bradshaw's Railway Guide, July 1922. The line was much used for through goods, especially between Newark and Northampton. The joint line closed in 1962, except for isolated fragments, but the Newark to Bottesford Junction section survived until 1988.
On 9 July 1928, King George V and Queen Mary arrived at the station from King's Cross, where they were received by the 6th Duke of Portland.
The short connection to the Newark Castle to line was opened in 1965 by British Rail to maintain a link between the East Coast Main Line (ECML) and Lincoln, following the closure of the branch from the latter to . This remains in use today by trains to Lincoln and ., The Lincolnite, 12 March 2018, Retrieved 17 June 2019
The station won the Medium Station of the Year award at the National Rail Awards in 2026.
Newark flat crossing The station lies just south of the Newark flat crossing, which is one of the few remaining flat railway crossings in Great Britain. The ECML is crossed by the Nottingham-Lincoln line; inter-city trains not calling at Newark Northgate have to slow from to at the crossing.
Facilities The station has a ticket office, waiting rooms, a refreshment kiosk, a car park and bike storage. There are lifts and step-free access to all platforms.
Layout
The station has three platforms: serves inter-city trains to Doncaster, York, Leeds, Hull Paragon, Newcastle and Edinburgh Waverley to Peterborough and London King's Cross to Lincoln and London King's Cross.
Services
Newark Northgate is served by two train operating companies, which provide the following general off-peak services in trains per hour/day (tph/tpd):
London North Eastern Railway: 5 tp2h to 1 tp2h to 1 tp2h to , via 1 tp2h to , via Leeds 1 tp2h to , via and 2 tpd to , via York, Newcastle, Edinburgh Waverley and Dundee 1 tpd to , via York, Newcastle and Edinburgh Waverley 1 tpd to , via York, Newcastle and Edinburgh Waverley 1 tpd to , via .
Some northbound services terminate at earlier stations in early mornings and late evenings.
East Midlands Railway: 3 tpd to Lincoln 2 tpd to 1 tpd to , via Lincoln.
See also Listed buildings in Newark-on-Trent
References Citations
Sources Body, G. (1986), PSL Field Guides - Railways of the Eastern Region Volume 1, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Wellingborough,
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