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

Journey time
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No single figure here. The South City Line calls at Newmarket twice on one trip. See below.

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

Typical time from here

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

DestinationTypical trip
Waitematā via GraftonSouth City11m 29susually (9m 35s – 13m 09s)
Waitematā via ParnellSouth City8m 38susually (7m 26s – 10m 50s)
PaerātāSouth City53m 29susually (52m 17s – 56m 31s)
DrurySouth City46m 52susually (44m 37s – 49m 43s)
HendersonOnehunga-West33m 48susually (31m 21s – 37m 39s)
PuhinuiSouth City23m 16susually (21m 32s – 25m 02s)
New LynnOnehunga-West22m 14susually (20m 04s – 25m 56s)
ŌtāhuhuSouth City14m 39susually (13m 04s – 16m 39s)

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.

Newmarket–
  • Line average (98.0%)
  • This stop

What isn't timed from Newmarket

The South City Line calls at Newmarket twice on the same trip, once on each side of its city loop, so there is no single "trip from Newmarket" on this line to put in the figure at the top. Waitematā can be reached either way round the loop, and the two ways take different times, so the table above lists each one separately rather than averaging them.

The Onehunga-West Line measures its journey times TO Newmarket. It's the hub every other stop on the line is timed against. There is no "from Newmarket" figure for it to report, so it contributes only the trips that carry on past here.

None of this is a gap in what the trains did, or in what we captured. Every train through Newmarket is recorded the same as anywhere else. How late it ran, whether it ran at all, and how long the wait was are all measured normally, in this station's other chapters. It is journey TIMES, and only on the lines named above, that are shaped by where the line runs.