Newmarket Station formal opening tomorrow

A joint press release from KiwiRail and ARTA announces that Newmarket station will have its formal opening tomorrow: Transport Minister opens 21st Century Newmarket Train Station The Minister of Transport, Steven Joyce, will join an array of Auckland dignitaries including Local Government Minister Rodney Hide and the Mayor of Auckland, John Banks, to officially open a state of the art new Newmarket train station at a special celebration hosted by the Auckland Regional Transport Authority (ARTA) and KiwiRail on Thursday.…
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The Newmarket stuff-up

It would seem as though a rail upgrade in Auckland can never go off without a hitch, and so it is proving with the Newmarket Station improvements. The station itself is coming along very nicely indeed, and will be ready for train services on January 18th – in just over a week’s time.…
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Newmarket West Station

There has been quite a lot of talk over the last few days about the future of the Newmarket West Train Station once the new Newmarket station opens in January next year. Brian Rudman wrote a fairly lengthy article on the matter in today’s herald, while another article on transport issues also mentioned the ‘up in the air’ future of this station.…
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