Newmarket Train Station: delays, cancellations and waits

How the trains at Newmarket 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.

Newmarket 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 7 of 19 on the Onehunga ↔ Henderson run, between Remuera and Grafton. 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 rides from here to the line's other hubs actually took.

Newmarket

Headway
70.8%↓ 1.3 pts vs prev 14d

1,906 of 2,692 gaps close to planned

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

Day by day: gaps kept

14 Oct – 27 Oct

How long the waits actually were

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

Under 0.5× the timetabled gap59122.0%
0.5 – 1.5× · about as timetabled1,90670.8%
1.5 – 2×461.7%
2 – 3×863.2%
More than 3×632.3%

Your wait for a train

The average wait if you turn up without checking the timetable. It adds up from three parts: the wait the timetable's spacing alone would give, the extra from its gaps being uneven, and what late or missing trains added on the day.

to Pukekohe

7m 24s average wait if you turn up at any time

Timetable spacing4m 10s
Uneven gaps in the timetable+1m 59s
Late or missing trains+1m 15s
Average wait7m 24s

Your wait for a train throughout the day

Pick the time you get to the platform and the line shows how long until the next train leaves. Each drop to zero is a train departing, so the high points are the worst moments to turn up.

AM peakPM peak05:3006:0006:3007:0007:3008:0008:3009:0009:3010:0010:3011:0011:3012:0012:3013:0013:3014:0014:3015:0015:3016:0016:3017:0017:3018:0018:3019:0019:3020:0020:3021:0021:3022:0022:3023:0023:30

Time you reach the platform