2023 Bus Timetable
Morning and Afternoon School Buses
For morning school bus times and stops, and any information about the afternoon school buses contact the bus company concerned or contact Auckland Transport ph (09) 355 3553 or go to https://at.govt.nz/ click on ‘Bus Train Ferry’ on the top left side of screen. This is their Journey Planner and it will give you all the closest public transport options for a journey. If you want to see only school bus timetables, just click on ‘Timetables’ on the left, then click on ‘school timetables’ and scroll down and click on ‘Westlake Girls’. The direct link for Westlake Girls buses is: https://at.govt.nz/bus-train-ferry/timetables/school-timetables/westlake-girls/
Ritchies Transport (RT)
Phone: 415-9138
NZ Buses (NZB)
Phone: 444-4408
Go Bus (GB)
Phone: 275-8811
1. TOP SCHOOL BUS BAY on Shakespeare Rd extension
Bus Numbers 009, 023, 025, 026, 045, 052, 055, 057, 073, 074
009 Diana Drive (RT)
St Josephs, Rosmini College, Dominion, Puriri, Karaka, Taharoto, Takapuna Intermediate, Westlake Girls High, Forrest Hill, Westlake Boys High, Forrest Hill, Tristram, Wairau, Archers, Sunnybrae, Coronation, Lynden, Mountbatten, Hume, Monarch, Betsland, McDowell, Moore, Tilden, Pupuke, Glenfield, Chivalry to Diana Drive. Leaves the bus bay at 3.25pm
023 Totara Grove (NZB)
Carmel College, Shakespeare, Westlake Girls High, Forrest Hill, East Coast, Sunnynook, Sycamore, Juniper, Sunset to Target Road opposite Cheval Drive. Leaves the bus bay at 3.25pm
025 Torbay (RT)
Carmel College, Shakespeare, Taharoto, Westlake Girls High, Forrest Hill, Westlake Boys High, East Coast Road, Rangitoto College, Carlisle, Firth, Deep Creek, Weatherley, Geoffrey, Glamorgan, Marina, Stredwick, Awaruka, County to Torbay Shops. (First stop is Kowhai Road.) Leaves the bus bay at 3.30pm
N.B: Two and three stage fare passengers only. One stage passengers take public bus 875 from the public stop by the former Columbus Coffee (Smales Farm). This leaves the bus stop at 3.25pm.
026 Pinehill (RT)
Westlake Girls High, Shakespeare, East Coast, Aberdeen, Beach Rd to Mairangi Bay, Rothesay Bay, Browns Bay, Glencoe to Oaktree corner East Coast Rd. Leaves the bus bay at 3.25pm
036 East Coast Rd to Aberdeen Rd (new afternoon only route started in 2020) (RT)
Westlake Girls High, Shakespeare, East Coast, to the start of Aberdeen Rd. Leaves the bus bay at 3.25pm
042 Albany (RT)
Carmel College Shakespeare Extension, Westlake Girls High, Wairau, Albany Highway, Rosedale, Bush, Albany Expressway, The Avenue to Hobson Road. Leaves the bus bay at 3.25pm
045 Silverdale (GB)
Shakespeare (for Carmel College), Shakespeare Extension (for Westlake Girls High), Wairau, Forest Hill (for Westlake Boys High), Tristram, Tristram Avenue on-ramp, Northern Motorway, Greville Road off-ramp, Albany Expressway, Bush (for Pinehurst School), Rosedale, Albany Highway, Albany Expressway, Main North Highway, Wainui, Silverdale. Leaves bus bay at 3.25pm
046 Glenfield (NZB)
Carmel College, Shakespeare extension, Westlake Girls High, Wairau, Porana, Sunnybrae, Coronation, Lynden, Sylvia, Eban, Moore, Glenfield, Chivalry to Diana Drive. Leaves the bus bay at 3.25pm
052 Sunnynook (NZB)
Carmel College, Shakespeare, Westlake Girls High, Forrest Hill, Havelock, Becroft, Sunnynook, Sycamore, Salamanca, Laurina, Sycamore. Leaves the bus bay at 3.25pm
055 Unsworth (RT)
Carmel College, Shakespeare, Wairau, Westlake Girls High, Westlake Boys High, Tristram, Croftfield, Target, Caribbean, Devonshire, Meadowood, Barbados, Unsworth, Glenfield Rd, Wairau (to Diana Drive). Leaves the bus bay at 3.30pm
056 Glenfield (RT)
Carmel College, Shakespeare extension, Westlake Girls High, Wairau, Archers, Coronation, Glenfield, Kaipatiki, Glenfield College, Kaipatiki, Glenfield, Chivalry, Diana, Wairau, Target, Sunnynook, Sycamore, Sunset to Glenfield Road, Wairau Road. Leaves the bus bay at 3.25pm
057 Glenfield (NZB)
Taharoto, Wairau, Forrest Hill, Havelock, Becroft, Sunnynook, Totaravale, Trias, Athena, Trias, Sunset, Caribbean, Devonshire, Meadowood, Barbados, Unsworth, Albany Highway to Glenfield Rd corner Ellice/Wairau Road. Leaves the bus bay at 3.25pm
073 Target Road (NZB)
Rosmini College, St Josephs, Dominion, Puriri, Karaka, Taharoto, Westlake Girls High, Wairau, Forrest Hill, Westlake Boys High, Sunnynook, Sycamore, Juniper, Sunset to Target Road. Leaves the bus bay at 3.30pm
074 Glenfield (RT)
Rosmini College, Puriri, Karaka, Taharoto (for Takapuna Normal Intermediate), Shakespeare Extension (for Westlake Girls High at ‘soundwall’ stop), Taharoto (for Carmel College & Westlake Boys High at stop near corner Shakespeare Rd), Northcote, Lake, Raleigh, Pupuke, Tilden, Moore, McDowell, Betsland, Monarch, Hume, Mountbatten, Lynden, Coronation, Glenfield, Roberts, Stanley, Seaview, Tamahere, Contessa, Stanley, Kaipatiki, Glenfield to Glenfield Shops. Leaves the bus bay at 3.25pm
2. BUS STOP ON WAIRAU ROAD (Atlas Concrete side of Wairau Road)
Bus Number 053 (NZB)
053 Campbells Bay
Westlake Boys High, Forrest Hill, Westlake Girls High, Shakespeare, Kitchener, Milford, Graig, Omana, Inga, Beach (to the corner of Ramsgate & Hastings Rd). Leaves the bus stop at 3.25pm
3. BUS STOP ON TAHAROTO ROAD Hospital side (opposite Subway)
Bus Numbers 017, 087
017 Bayswater and Devonport (NZB)
Westlake Boys High, Forrest Hill, Belmont, Nile, Waterloo, Shakespeare, Carmel College, Westlake Girls High, Taharoto, Takapuna Intermediate, Rosmini College, Anzac, Lake, Takapuna Grammar, King Edward to Bayswater then Devonport. Leaves the bus stop at 3.35pm
087 Devonport and Stanley Bay (NZB)
Westlake Boys High, Forrest Hill, Nile, Waterloo, Shakespeare, Carmel College, Shakespeare, Westlake Girls High, Taharoto, Anzac, Lake, Takapuna Grammar, Old Lake, Vauxhall, Albert, Victoria, Stanley Bay and Calliope back to Devonport (Ferry Terminal). Leaves the bus stop at 3.35pm N.B: First stop Hauraki Corner
4. SMALES FARM BUS STATION PLATFORM 1
Bus Numbers 044, 047
044 Silverdale (GB)
Shakespeare, Taharoto, Smales Farm Bus Station, Silverdale off-ramp, Hibiscus Coast Highway, Wainui, Silverdale. Leaves the bus station at 3.25pm
047 Gulf Harbour (GB)
Carmel College, Shakespeare, Smales Farm Station Platform 1, Northern Busway and Motorway to Silverdale off-ramp, Hibiscus Coast Highway, Wainui, Silverdale, Whangaparaoa, Brightside, Kauri, Totara, Whangaparaoa, Pacific Plaza, Whangaparaoa, Shakespear, Gulf Harbour (to corner Whangaparaoa Rd). Leaves the bus station at 3.25pm
BAYES BUSES: Phone 426-5504
5. SMALES FARM BUS STATION PLATFORM 3
024 Manly
Westlake Boys High, Nile, Alma, Shakespeare, Taharoto, Fred Thomas Drive, Northern Busway at Akoranga, Smales Farm Bus Station, Oteha, East Coast, Silverdale Shops, Hibiscus Coast Highway. Leaves Westlake Boys High at 3.18pm
RITCHIES TRANSPORT BIRKENHEAD (was BIRKENHEAD BUSES)
Phone: 483-9119
6. SMALES FARM BUS STATION PLATFORM 3a
003 Chatswood
Onto the Busway and exit Akoranga Station onto Akoranga Drive, College, Raleigh, Pupuke, Birkenhead, Onewa Bypass, Porritt, Chelsea View, Onetaunga, Balmain. Leaves the bus station at 3.25pm
009 Verrans corner
Onto the Busway and exit Akoranga Station onto Akoranga Drive, Northcote, Lake, Onewa, Mokoia, Waipa, Verrans Corner. Leaves the bus station at 3.25pm
010 Beachhaven
Onto the Busway and exit Akoranga Station onto Akoranga Drive, College, Exmouth, Raleigh, Pupuke, Birkenhead, Onewa Bypass, Verrans Corner, Birkdale, Beachhaven, Rangatira. Leaves the bus station at 3.25pm
SCHOOL BUS BAY ON SHAKESPEARE ROAD EXTENSION
15M Bayview/Manuka Road
Westlake Girls High (Shakespeare Rd Extension), Wairau, Archers, Chivalry, Chartwell, Bentley, Downing, Glenfield, Glenfield Mall, James, Spinella, Bayview, Lynn, Manuka. Finish at the intersection of Manuka and Glenfield. Leaves this stop at 3.20pm
015G Glenfield Shops
Westlake Girls High (Shakespeare Rd Extension), Wairau, Archers, Chivalry, Glenfield, finish at Glenfield Mall. Leaves this stop at 3.25pm
RITCHIES Transport West Auckland
Phone: 833 6053
SMALES FARM BUS STATION PLATFORM 1
028, 029, 031
028 North Shore Schools to Greenhithe, Herald Island & Whenuapai
Westlake Boys High (opposite 53 Forrest Hill Rd), Forrest Hill, Belmont, Nile, Alma, Shakespeare, Carmel Girls, Shakespeare, (pick up Westlake Girls High from Smales Farm Bus Station platform 1), via Northern Busway, Constellation Station, Parkway, Constellation, Upper Harbour (SH18), Greenhithe, Tauhinu, onto Upper Harbour Motorway (SH18), Brigham Creek, Kauri, Kingsway, The Terrace, Ferry, Kingsway, Puriri, Waimarie, Totara, Brigham Creek, Airport Road, finish outside Whenuapai School. Leaves at 3.15pm
029 North Shore Schools to Massey and West Harbour
14 Taharoto Rd, Shakespeare, (pick up Westlake Girls High from Smales Farm Bus Station platform 1), Northern Busway, Parkway, Constellation, Upper Harbour (SH18), Greenhithe, Tauhinu, Upper Harbour Motorway, Squadron, Hobsonville Point Rd, Hobsonville Rd, Marina View, Luckens, Moire, Royal, finish at 15 Royal Rd. Leaves at 3.20pm
031 North Shore Schools to West Harbour and Greenhithe
14 Taharoto Rd, Shakespeare, (pick up Westlake Girls High from Smales Farm Bus Station platform 1), Northern Busway, Constellation Station, Parkway, Constellation, Upper Harbour, Upper Harbour Motorway (SH18), Greenhithe, Tauhinu, onto Upper Harbour Motorway, Squadron, Hobsonville Point Rd, Hobsonville Rd, Marina View, finish opposite Marina View School. Leaves at 3.15pm
Ritchies Transport West Auckland
Phone 833 6053
Ritchies have supplied detailed morning bus route information but only a map to show the afterschool return route (although it appears to be the reverse of the morning routes). The link to their website for 237 is: https://www.ritchies.co.nz/auckland-school-bus-services
Route 327: Waimauku to Westlake Schools
Fare $55 (10 ride ticket)
7.15am Waimauku Station Road, Factory Rd, State Highway 16.
Fare $50 (10 Ride Ticket)
7.20am Tapu Road, Matua Road, Oraha Road, Old North Road, Riverhead Road, Coatesville Riverhead Highway, Riverhead Road, Coatesville Riverhead Highway.
Fare $40 (10 Ride Ticket)
7.40am Coatesville Store, Dairy Flat Highway, onto Albany Expressway, Northern Busway
8.05am Westlake Girls High Shakespeare Road bus stop, Taharoto Road, Forest Hill Road
8.10am Westlake Boys High, Belmont Terrace, Nile Road, Alma Road, Shakespeare Road
8.15am Carmel College, Shakespeare Road, Taharoto Road
8.20am Rosmini bus stop outside KFC
Click here to see morning route map
Return
Route 327 Westlake Schools to Waimauku via Dairy Flat and Riverhead
Depart 3.20pm
Students for the afternoon 327 bus will be picked up at the bus stop on Shakespeare Rd opposite Brooke St, just before the intersection to North Shore Hospital (public bus stop 3310).
Click here to see return route map
Tickets
Tickets will be on sale from Monday 24 January 2022 at:
Ritchies Swanson, 572 Swanson Road, Ranui Swanson
Monday – Friday 8.30am – 7.30pm
Sunday 9am – 1pm
