Long wait · Chicago · Sat Oct 10
18 min with no Brown Line train
At Paulina, toward Kimball, between 7:46 pm and 8:04 pm. The schedule called for a train every 8 min.
- Line
- Brown Line
- Station
- Paulina (station 41310)
- Direction
- toward Kimball
- Train before
- run 420, passed 7:46:39 pm
- Train after
- run 425, passed 8:04:39 pm
- Gap
- 18 min (1080 s)
- Scheduled gap
- 8 min
- Collector
- running the whole time
Scheduled against seen
Each tick is a train at Paulina toward Kimball. The two runs either side of the gap are labeled.
What Train Tracker said
Train Tracker reports each train's next stop. A train has passed Paulina when its next stop moves past it.
| Snapshot | Run 420 (before) | Run 425 (after) |
|---|---|---|
| 7:45:09 pm | next stop Southport | next stop Sedgwick (Brown/Purple) |
| 7:46:09 pm | next stop Paulina | next stop Sedgwick (Brown/Purple) |
| 7:47:09 pm | next stop Addison (Brown) | next stop Sedgwick (Brown/Purple) |
| 7:48:09 pm | next stop Addison (Brown) | next stop Sedgwick (Brown/Purple) |
| 7:49:09 pm | next stop Addison (Brown) | next stop Armitage (Brown/Purple) |
| 7:50:09 pm | next stop Irving Park (Brown) | next stop Armitage (Brown/Purple) |
| 7:51:09 pm | next stop Irving Park (Brown) | next stop Armitage (Brown/Purple) |
| 7:52:09 pm | next stop Montrose (Brown) | next stop Armitage (Brown/Purple) |
| 7:53:09 pm | next stop Montrose (Brown) | next stop Fullerton |
| 7:54:09 pm | next stop Damen (Brown) | next stop Fullerton |
| 7:55:09 pm | next stop Damen (Brown) | next stop Fullerton |
| 7:56:09 pm | next stop Western (Brown) | next stop Diversey (Brown/Purple) |
| 7:57:09 pm | next stop Rockwell | next stop Wellington (Brown/Purple) |
| 7:58:09 pm | next stop Francisco | next stop Wellington (Brown/Purple) |
| 7:59:09 pm | next stop Francisco | next stop Belmont (Red/Brown/Purple) |
| 8:00:09 pm | next stop Kedzie (Brown) | next stop Southport |
Showing 16 of 22 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-brown-gap-72279.json.
Check it yourself
Scheduled times come from CTA's GTFS schedule for Sat Oct 10. Positions come from Train Tracker, polled once a minute. The raw records above are exactly what CTA's servers returned. How the numbers are worked out.