The $35 million Newmarket Station will be open to the public this Saturday, reports The New Zealand Herald:
Although KiwiRail has yet to complete a reconfiguration of tracks at Newmarket Junction before passenger trains start calling at the station on January 18, the building itself has been largely finished in time for tomorrow’s open day from 11am until 3pm.
Its focal point is a 1000sq m covered concourse built 5m above three sets of railway tracks, where passengers will converge from four entrances before using escalators, lifts or stairs to reach platforms below.
Each of the four “island” platforms is 180m long, almost four times the reach of Newmarket’s Olympic-size swimming pool.
