Maungawhau Train Station: delays, cancellations and waits

How the trains at Maungawhau (formerly Mount Eden) on Auckland's East-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.

Maungawhau is served by two of Auckland's rail lines (the East-West and the Onehunga-West), so trains calling here are counted separately for each. It is stop 14 of 27 on the Swanson ↔ Manukau run, between Kingsland and Karanga-a-Hape. It was called Mount Eden before the City Rail Link timetable, and a decade of public record is filed under that name. 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 Karanga-a-Hape, 1 stop away, actually took.

Maungawhau

Journey time
99.6%↓ 0.3 pts vs prev 14d

share of 2,066 rides to the city at timetable pace

The figure is the trip from here to Waitematā on the East-West 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
WaitematāEast-West6m 46susually (5m 27s – 8m 47s)
NewmarketOnehunga-West4m 21susually (2m 28s – 7m 01s)
ManukauEast-West47m 53susually (45m 44s – 49m 59s)
PuhinuiEast-West41m 08susually (39m 07s – 43m 29s)
ŌtāhuhuEast-West32m 35susually (31m 14s – 34m 46s)
HendersonEast-West28m 30susually (26m 30s – 30m 35s)
PanmureEast-West24m 17susually (22m 29s – 26m 05s)
New LynnEast-West17m 23susually (15m 25s – 19m 07s)

How this stop compares along the line

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

Maungawhau99.6%
  • Line average (98.2%)
  • This stop