History
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.
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 Services onto the joint line from Newark were withdrawn by 1922. 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 and Grimsby.
In January 2009, National Express East Coast installed ticket barriers.
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