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Newmarket

Horn fanfare in two bursts.

  • S-CO-W
  • South family
  • Brass signature

Why Newmarket sounds like this

Soft, rounded horns play a fanfare in two bursts, each a quick run up into a held chord. Newmarket is where the South-City and Onehunga-West lines meet, and South-City trains finish their loop through the city here. A fanfare suits a station that's both a busy junction and the end of a lap.

Inside the chime

Newmarket's chime runs about 5 seconds, in three parts. Every station's chime ends on its family's signature, so you can tell roughly where you are by ear.

  1. 1

    Newmarket's own motif 3.0 s

    Horn fanfare in two bursts. No other station plays it.

  2. 2

    The South family's brass 0.8 s

    A short brass note, then a longer one a fourth higher. With 21 stations, Grafton and Parnell down to Pukekohe and Manukau, it is the largest family.

  3. 3

    The end-of-line bell 1.5 s

    Newmarket is the end of the South-City line. On that line's trains its chime finishes with a bell, to tell you this is as far as the train goes.

On the network

ParnellNewmarketYou are hereGraftonRemueraGreenlaneEllerslie

The South family

21 stations end on the brass: Parnell down to Pukekohe and Manukau, plus Grafton.