Note changes for Southern and Eastern Line
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The new rail timetable starts Monday. Please note the changes as Eastern Line services will terminate at Manukau and no longer Papakura. This means transfers are necessary between Otahuhu and Puhinui.
From Auckland Transport:
Train timetable changes from Monday 8 December 2014
Train timetables are being updated following the introduction of electric trains on the Eastern and Onehunga Lines.
Whilst improvements are focused on these lines, some changes have been made to the Southern and Western Lines.
Date: From Monday 8 December 2014
Place: All train lines (Eastern, Southern, Western, Onehunga)
Main changes from Monday 8 December include:
New train network map
Please note: The Eastern line will now end at Manukau
Eastern line
- More frequent trains to and from Manukau
- 10 minute peak frequency, 20 minute off-peak frequency and 30 minute frequency in evenings and weekends
- All services heading south will terminate at Manukau. Customers wishing to travel to stations further south will need to transfer to the Southern line at Otahuhu ot Papatoetoe
Southern line
- All tains will go via Newmarket; passengers travelling to stations between Sylvia Park and Orakei will need to transfer to Eastern line at Papatoetoe or Otahuhu
- Pukekohe services will increase from 25 to 29 per weekday
- Pukekohe new hourly weekend service (passengers will need to transfer trains at Papakura)
- Electric trains will be introduced progressively in early 2015
Onehunga line
- Increased off-peak and weekend services
- Consistent half hour services all day, seven days a week
- Extended Friday night and weekend hours
Western line
- Extra Friday night services between 10pm and 12.30am (every half hour)
- Saturday and Sunday half hour frequency extended to all day
- Weekend train services will finish at Swanson (currently some Saturday services continue to Waitakere). An hourly bus service will operate between Swanson station and Waitakere village in its place
New timetables effective 8 December 2014
Departure times at all stations may have changed
Check new timetables carefully before travelling from Monday 8 December.
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It is great to see the new timetable come out and it wont take too much “practice” to learn to transfer for Southern and Eastern Line services seeming it happens for the most part already.
However, AT have really pickled themselves for those wanting to go from Manukau to Papakura. At the moment and still we have no Manukau Rail South Link available to allow direct 20 minute frequent services from Manukau to Papakura (trip time would be 14 mins and trust me demand is high for such services having been at Manukau Station frequently). That means you need to take the northbound trains to Puhinui and then transfer to a Southern Line service to head to Papakura or a Manukau service if wanting to go to Manukau. This meant in part quite a bit of backtracking between Puhinui and the Manukau Line junction. Well what AT are suggesting is transferring at Papatoetoe which is even further north thus more backtracking…..
Just build the South Link and get it over and done with seeming Great South Road buses take 28 mins to do the same trip, and even longer from next year as major roadworks start on the Takanini motorway interchange….
Oh and the EMU 6-car sets are now in revenue service too (carrying passengers). With a standard capacity of 750 people we will be moving some serious numbers around…
Talking Southern Auckland 