Grafton Train Station: delays, cancellations and waits

How the trains at Grafton on Auckland's Onehunga-West Line actually ran: how many left late, how many left early, how many never turned up at all, how long you really wait between them and how long the trip to the city takes. Recorded at this platform, day after day.

Grafton is served by two of Auckland's rail lines (the Onehunga-West and the South City), so trains calling here are counted separately for each. It is stop 8 of 19 on the Onehunga ↔ Henderson run, between Newmarket and Maungawhau. Four things are recorded at this platform and nowhere summarised on its behalf: how late departures were, how many booked trains never came, how long the gap between trains actually ran against the timetabled gap, and how long the ride between here and Newmarket actually took.

Grafton

Journey time
99.4%↓ 0.3 pts vs prev 14d

share of 1,810 rides to the city at timetable pace

The figure is the trip from here to Waitematā on the South City Line. The times below cover every hub a train from this stop reaches without a change, on any of its lines.

How long rides took compared with the timetable, and where time was lost.

A trip counts if it's no more than 5 minutes slower than planned. Arriving early never counts against it.

Punctuality can't see this. A train that leaves late but keeps pace costs you no time on the way. One that leaves on time and crawls does.

We time the ride from here to the city, and back.

How we measure

Day by day: rides within 5 minutes of the booked time

14 Oct – 27 Oct

Typical time from here

How long the trip takes, not how often it runs to time.

DestinationTypical trip
WaitematāSouth City7m 45susually (6m 31s – 9m 45s)
NewmarketOnehunga-West2m 10susually (19s – 3m 26s)
PaerātāSouth City57m 21susually (55m 44s – 1h 00m)
DrurySouth City50m 35susually (48m 55s – 53m 44s)
HendersonOnehunga-West30m 41susually (28m 29s – 33m 33s)
PuhinuiSouth City26m 59susually (25m 38s – 29m 42s)
New LynnOnehunga-West18m 59susually (17m 18s – 21m 18s)
ŌtāhuhuSouth City18m 51susually (16m 56s – 20m 05s)

How this stop compares along the line

In running order. Each stop is scored on its journey to Newmarket, so Newmarket has no reading of its own. Drawn along the Onehunga-West Line.

Grafton99.0%
  • Line average (98.0%)
  • This stop