Editing Newmarket, Suffolk (section)

==Transport==
[[Newmarket (Suffolk) railway station|Newmarket railway station]] is on the [[Ipswich-Ely line]], formerly belonging to the [[Great Eastern Railway]] (later part of the [[London & North Eastern Railway]]). 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 [[West Anglia Main Line]] at {{rws|Great Chesterford}} and ran about {{convert|15|mi|km|round=5|abbr=off}} north-eastwards. There was an attractive terminus in Newmarket, with intermediate stations at {{rws|Bourne Bridge}}, {{rws|Balsham Road}} and {{rws|Six Mile Bottom}}.

Three years later the first {{convert|9|mi|km|0|abbr=off|spell=on}} or so of this line, the stretch from Great Chesterford to Six Mile Bottom, was superseded by a more viable section linking Six Mile Bottom directly with Cambridge, and so the Great Chesterford – Six Mile Bottom section closed in 1851, one of the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, Suffolk|Haverhill]] – [[Sudbury, Suffolk|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.<ref>{{cite web | title = Newmarket (1st Station) | publisher = Disused Stations
| date = 23 June 2005 | url = http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/n/newmarket/index.shtml | access-date = 2008-02-04 }}</ref>

A short distance to the north east is the 1,100-yard Warren Hill tunnel. North of the tunnel, a separate station, {{rws|Warren Hill}}, was built for raceday use.

Regular bus services run to the neighbouring towns of Bury St Edmunds, Cambridge, Ely and Mildenhall.<ref name=buses>[http://www.suffolkonboard.com/timetables_leaflets/timetables_by_area/newmarket_surrounding_area Newmarket & surrounding areas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130111041116/http://www.suffolkonboard.com/timetables_leaflets/timetables_by_area/newmarket_surrounding_area |date=11 January 2013 }}, Suffolk County Council. Retrieved 2013-01-22.</ref> Various [[National Express Coaches|National Express]] coach services serve the town: London ([[Victoria Coach Station]]) to Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft; Norwich to [[Stansted Airport|Stansted]], [[Heathrow Airport|Heathrow]] and [[Gatwick Airport]]s; and the cross country Clacton-on-Sea to Liverpool service which travels via Cambridge, Peterborough, Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield and Manchester. In late 2006, Newmarket introduced a [[Park and Ride]] service running from Studlands industrial estate to the town centre, which was replaced by an hourly bus route, the number 11 (formerly number 10), whilst at the same time parking charges were introduced to the town. {{Citation needed|reason=''See talk page for details''|date=February 2021}}