Takaanini Train Station: delays, cancellations and waits

How the trains at Takaanini on Auckland's South City 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.

Takaanini is served by Auckland's South City Line. It is stop 5 of 23 on the Pukekohe ↔ Newmarket · city loop via Grafton and Parnell run, between Papakura and Te Mahia. 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, 14 stops away, actually took.

Takaanini

Punctuality
89.5%↓ 4.9 pts vs prev 14d

How often trains left this station on time.

On time means leaving no more than 5 minutes after the timetable, and never before it. At the last stop, we go by the arrival.

Why every stop? Timetables build in spare time near the end of a line. On a long line a train can run late through the middle, make it up over the last few stations and still finish on time. Checking only the end of the line would call that a good trip, but most people don't ride the whole way. If you got on or off in the middle, your train was late. Checking every stop shows where it actually was.

How we measure

Day by day: train stops on time

14 Oct – 27 Oct

How early or late trains were

Against the timetabled time.

5 minutes or more early30.2%
3 to 5 minutes early10.1%
Up to 3 minutes early472.5%
Up to 3 minutes late1,51381.1%
3 to 5 minutes late1578.4%
5 minutes or more late1457.8%