Newark North Gate railway station

Newark North Gate
Location
Place	Newark-on-Trent
Coordinates	53°04′52″N 0°47′56″W / 53.081°N 0.799°W / 53.081; -0.799Coordinates: 53°04′52″N 0°47′56″W / 53.081°N 0.799°W / 53.081; -0.799
Operations
Station code	NNG
Managed by	East Coast
Platforms in use	3
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2002/03 *	0.335 million
2004/05 *	0.377 million
2005/06 *	0.400 million
2006/07 *	1.188 million
2007/08 *	0.923 million
History
Opened 1 August 1852 (1 August 1852)
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Newark North Gate from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Newark-on-Trent
Legend East Coast Main Line Nottingham to Lincoln Line Newark Crossing Newark North Gate Freight connection Newark Castle Great North Road Nottingham to Lincoln Line East Coast Main Line

Newark North Gate station is a railway station serving the town of Newark-on-Trent, in Nottinghamshire, England. It is situated on the East Coast Main Line 120 miles(193 kilometres) north of London Kings Cross, between Grantham and Retford.

Newark-on-Trent is a fairly small market town, 25 miles (40 km) east of the City of Nottingham. Newark has two railway stations: the other station, Newark Castle, is operated by East Midlands Trains and is located nearer the town centre. It links Newark to Nottingham, Lincoln and other cities in central England.

History

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The station is on the Great Northern Railway Towns Line from Peterborough to Doncaster which opened in August 1852, the easier to construct Fens Loop Line via Boston and Lincoln had opened two years earlier.^[1].

The station became a junction in 1879 with the opening of the GNR branch to Bottesford, 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 Northampton or Leicester and also to Nottingham. Services onto the joint line from Newark were withdrawn by 1922^[2] The line was much used for through goods, especially between Newark and Northampton.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.

The short connection to the Newark Castle to Lincoln Central line was opened in 1965 by British Rail to maintain a link between the ECML and Lincoln following the closure of the branch from the latter to Grantham. This remains in use today by trains to Lincoln & Grimsby.

Services

From platforms 1 and 2, East Coast run intercity trains south for stations to London Kings Cross, as well as to the North for stations to Leeds, Newcastle upon Tyne and Scotland. East Midlands Trains also runs a service to Lincoln and Grimsby from platform 3. Occasional trains on the Nottingham to Lincoln Line also call additionally at Newark North Gate.

A raillink bus operates to this station from Lincoln bus station.

Station name

There is significant ambiguity about the correct form of the station's name. Different station name signs on the platforms say "Newark North Gate" or "Newark Northgate" (below right). On exiting the station, the old British Rail sign says just "Northgate" and road signs towards the station say 'Northgate'.

Former Services

Notes

References

• Body, G. (1986), PSL Field Guides - Railways of the Eastern Region Volume 1, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Wellingborough, ISBN 0-85059-712-9

Outside sign with incorrect spelling "Northgate"

Road sign towards the station with incorrect spelling "Northgate"

On platform signage, both spellings are used. The correct spelling is the one on the left.

External links

• Media related to Newark North Gate railway station at Wikimedia Commons