New Lynn Train Station: delays, cancellations and waits

How the trains at New Lynn 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.

New Lynn 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 8 of 27 on the Swanson ↔ Manukau run, between Fruitvale Road and Avondale. 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, 7 stops away, actually took.

New Lynn

Journey time
97.4%↓ 2.3 pts vs prev 14d

share of 1,878 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-West26m 19susually (24m 12s – 28m 37s)
NewmarketOnehunga-West22m 14susually (20m 04s – 25m 56s)
ManukauEast-West1h 07musually (1h 04m – 1h 09m)
PuhinuiEast-West1h 00musually (58m 08s – 1h 03m)
ŌtāhuhuEast-West52m 01susually (50m 03s – 54m 43s)
PanmureEast-West43m 34susually (41m 18s – 46m 36s)
HendersonEast-West10m 33susually (8m 44s – 12m 05s)

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.

New Lynn97.4%
  • Line average (98.2%)
  • This stop