Newmarket train station
You can reach 12 stations directly from Newmarket on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bury St Edmunds, with 36 trains a day.
Newmarket is the nearest station for postcodes in CB8. Check your own postcode.
- 12 direct destinations
- 1,028th busiest in Britain
- Unstaffed
- Step-free in part
- 11 parking spaces
- 3 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Newmarket
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bury St Edmunds | 36 | 34 | 28 |
| Cambridge | 36 | 34 | 28 |
| Elmswell | 36 | 34 | 28 |
| Ipswich | 36 | 34 | 28 |
| Needham Market | 36 | 34 | 28 |
| Stowmarket | 36 | 34 | 28 |
| Thurston | 36 | 34 | 28 |
| Kennett | 28 | 25 | 16 |
| Dullingham | 26 | 24 | 17 |
| Harwich International | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Mistley | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Wrabness | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Freight through Newmarket station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Newmarket station in the week beginning 12 October 2026. Freight paths stay in the national timetable even when they run only as required, so a station with none booked is one that goods trains do not pass.
How busy Newmarket station is
374,156 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,028th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Newmarket and Cambridge than any other pair: 184,722 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.
Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.
Nearest other stations
- Dullingham 3.1 miles
- Kennett 4.4 miles
- Soham 7.5 miles
- Waterbeach 9.1 miles
- Cambridge North 10.6 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Newmarket, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Newmarket High Level · 0.4 miles
- Newmarket Warren Hill · 1.1 miles
- Exning Road Halt · 3.5 miles
- Burwell · 4.0 miles
- Fordham · 4.7 miles
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Facilities at Newmarket station
Newmarket is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
Parking at Newmarket station
- Station Car Park 11 spaces, 1 accessible
£3.00 a day
Cycle parking: 78 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 29 July 2026.
Getting to Newmarket station
Newmarket station is in East Cambridgeshire, East of England, and is run by Greater Anglia.
The nearest motorway junction is M11 J11 (Westfield), 13.9 miles south-west.
3 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Newmarket station elsewhere
- National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
- Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
- Wikipedia the station's history
- OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from
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