How long you really wait between Auckland trains

How long the gaps between Auckland's trains really were against the gaps the timetable promised: the bunching, the long waits and the excess wait time, station by station across the City Rail Link network.

All Auckland rail lines and stations

Network

Headway
86.0%↓ 0.9 pts vs prev 14d

How evenly trains were spaced, and how much extra waiting the uneven gaps added.

On busy lines nobody plans around the timetable. You just turn up, so the gap matters most.

Under half the planned gap counts as bunched, over one and a half times as a long wait. Excess wait is the extra time the average person spent on the platform because of it.

Two bunched trains can both be on time and still leave a 20 minute hole behind them. Excess wait catches that.

How we measure

How long the waits actually were

Every wait, sorted by how it compared with the gap the timetable promised.

Under 0.5× the timetabled gap3,9323.8%
0.5 – 1.5× · about as timetabled90,13086.0%
1.5 – 2×5,2365.0%
2 – 3×4,1624.0%
More than 3×1,3331.3%

Day by day: gaps kept

14 Oct – 27 Oct

Line by line

LineGaps kept
  • Network average (86.0%)

The worst stops